Synopses & Reviews
The irrepressible heroine of Sarah Strohmeyer's Agatha Award-winning series makes her usual headline-grabbing entrance just in time to heat up Pennsylvania's coal country-in another rip-roaring tale of murder and mayhem.
Bubbles Ablaze finds the redoubtable Ms. Bubbles Yablonsky heeding a call from her boss at the News-Times and racing her Camaro toward a potentially big news story. But when she arrives at an abandoned coal mine, she finds the love of her life, Steve Stiletto, knocked unconscious . . . and the body of another man with a sizeable hole in his chest. Moments later, Bubbles and Stiletto are trapped by an explosion. Convinced that someone wants them dead, they search for their intended assassin in coal country, where they uncover a conspiracy at the Main Mane hairdressing salon, a cadre of women known as the Sirens of Slagville, and a hot spot called Limbo that's been burning underground for forty years.
With a cast of characters headed by the usual suspects-Bubbles's brainy teenage daughter Jane; Jane's clueless boyfriend G; and that dynamite duo, her mother LuLu and paranoid sidekick Genevieve- and led by the singular Bubbles herself, this is another fast and furious tale that will keep readers in Limbo-and in stitches.
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"Lots of madcap fun....The dumb-blonde schtick works well with the whole loony business, and Strohmeyer's sharp eye for styles and regional details (Tastykakes, scrapple) adds to the realism and the charm." Publishers Weekly
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"Better-than-usual mystery beneath the manic-as-usual Strohmeyer mayhem." Kirkus Reviews
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"Bubbles Yablonsky, hairdresser and wannabe big-story reporter, bumbles her way through another engaging puzzle involving murder....Yes, there are dumb, blond hairdresser jokes but bustling action, and well-meaning confusion, too." Library Journal
About the Author
Sarah Strohmeyer grew up in Bethlehem, PA, and is a former newspaper reporter. She is the author of Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession and Bubbles Unbound, which she won the 2002 Agatha Award for best first mystery. She lives outside of Montpelier, VT, with her husband and two children.