Straight Reading from the Library: Bob at the Lake by R. Murphy

The Library reviewed BOB AT THE LAKE by R. Murphy as part of her virtual book tour with Goddess Fish Promotions. Roz will award one randomly chosen commenter a $25 Amazon gift card. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops today.

READ THE BLURB

Take a crabby woman of a certain age, move her to the wintry shores of a New York lake, and then throw in a martini-loving ghost from 1920s Manhattan. Last, stir in the good-looking grape grower who lives up the hill. Now there’s a recipe for a potent screwball cocktail!

READ THE REVIEW

A special thanks to Goddess Fish Promotions for sharing this book with me. It is hands down one of the cutest books I've read recently. Told in the first person by "a woman of a certain age," I quickly identified with the main character and her attempt to make a new life for herself. Little did she know that she had her own ghost, Bob. He's been assigned to her to help her; however, neither of them know with what.

I could so see this as a movie--a la Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. Between Bob, Roz's well-meaning family, and David, the hunk of a grape grower, there are a lot of fun things going on. I'm looking forward to the next installment of this story.

MEET THE AUTHOR

Roz Murphy is the pseudonym of a shy, retiring writer who doesn’t want her neighbors to know how nutty she really is. Brooklyn-born and Jersey-bred, Roz now lives on the misty shore of one of New York’s beautiful Finger Lakes. Prior to that, her business writing career took her to many locations, including Manhattan, where she worked for a number of years. As a freelance and corporate writer, Roz won several national and international writing and communications awards.

Now Roz is pursuing her first love—fiction. She’s writing the ‘Bob’ books, the humorous chronicle of a crabby ‘woman of a certain age’ who moves to the wintry shores of a New York lake—and gets a ghost. And not just any ghost, mind you. Bob’s a plump, middle-aged ghost from 1920s Manhattan who swans around in a silk smoking jacket and drinks far too many martinis. Stir the good-looking grape grower who lives up the hill into this mix and you get a pretty potent screwball cocktail!

When she’s not reading, writing, hill-walking, staring mindlessly out the window at the lake or piling rocks onto her ever-diminishing lakefront, you can usually find Roz hanging out with her family, travelling, or exploring the amazing wines and wineries of the Finger Lakes.

‘Bob at the Lake’ is exclusively available as a Kindle download from Amazon. Please join Roz Murphy Author on FaceBook for updates on the many adventures of Roz, David—and Bob.

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