Product Description

Bubbles Yablonsky is in trouble. Her exposé of corruption in Lehigh’s social heights has infuriated the local paper’s editor, so she’s still a full-time hairdresser and only an occasional reporter. Her freeloading ex is back on her sofa after his socialite wife threw him out, her daughter’s in love, and her mother thinks she’s Jackie O. Plus Bubbles’s chastity vow is not yet broken, which means sexy photographer Steve Stiletto’s heart has remained just out of reach.

Then her pool-table-top rendition of Free Bird at a drunken hen party gives the bride-to-be second thoughts. Bubbles is blamed when Janice never arrives in church, and goes to investigate. She finds Janice’s home empty – apart from the murdered body of her uncle Elwood. Bubbles suspects this could make a great story, and she wants her friend back. But tracking Janice down won’t be easy. Following her to Whoopee, Pennsylvania, Bubbles must go undercover as an Amish woman, with no hairdryer, no make-up and no lycra – her idea of hell. But if the murderer finds out who Bubbles really is, being caught au naturel will be the least of her worries...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #144460 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Booknews
'Bubbles has a life of her own. Strohmeyer...reaches down into the core of the character and the community'

Review
'A highly entertaining read. Strohmeyer's literary main squeeze is Bubbles Yablonsky, Pennsylvania hairdresser and occasional crime reporter, a gal with a talent for indescructible beehive coiffures and getting into trouble' (Midweek )

'Bubbles has a life of her own. Strohmeyer...reaches down into the core of the character and the community' (Booknews )

'In her second novel featuring high-energy beautician/rookie reporter, Bubbles Yablonsky, Strohmeyer successfully navigates the fine line between humorous stereotype and sympathetic amateur investigator...Bubbles goes undercover frantically (and hilariously) shifting between her role as a sexy reporter and her cover as an Amish widow...delightful' (Publishers Weekly )

'Instead of tickling gently, Bubbles smacks you with humor as broad as a whoopee pie in the kisser' (Kirkus Reviews )

Synopsis
Bubbles Yablonsky is in trouble. Her expose of corruption in Lehigh's social heights has infuriated the local paper's editor, so she's still a fulltime hairdresser and only an occasional reporter. Her freeloading ex is back on her sofa after his socialite wife threw him out, her daughter's in love, and her mother thinks she's Jackie O. Plus Bubbles's chastity vow is not yet broken, which means sexy photographer Steve Stiletto's heart has remained just out of reach. Then her pool-table-top rendition of Free Bird at a drunken hen party gives the bride-to-be second thoughts. Bubbles is blamed when Janice never arrives in church, and goes to investigate. She finds Janice's home empty - apart from the murdered body of her uncle Elwood. Bubbles suspects this could make a great story, and she wants her friend back. But tracking Janice down won't be easy. Following her to Whoopee, Pennsylvania, Bubbles must go undercover as an Amish woman, with no hairdryer, no make-up and no lycra - her idea of hell. But if the murderer finds out who Bubbles really is, being caught au naturel will be the least of her worries...

Customer Reviews

good but evanovich does it better
bubbles yablonsky is very like evanovich's stephanie plum and plum is much better. lots of silly adventures like waving a red wonderbra at a tractor driver and lots of silly characters, my favourite nimrod!!! good for a few hours of silliness at the end of the day to unwind.

Hairdresser investigates.
Bubbles Yablonsky is built in the mould of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum, she's a bit ditzy but she has a good heart and tends to get things done, somehow. This is the second story in the series about her. This time she finds herself drinking too much at a hen party (there was some dancing on a pool table) to celebrate Janice Kramer and Detective Mickey Sinkler's wedding. When she wakes up she's nearly late and the bride is no-where to be seen, though her uncle is dead, and his Rolls Royce is missing.

Bubbles finds out that Janice came from an Amish family and goes back to Janice's roots to find out the truth, gathering dead bodies and red herrings galore along the way.

It's a fun, light read, pure bubblegum, but it got several laugh-out-loud moments for me and was the perfect antidote to Unspeak.

What rot!
I have never read such a mind numbingly boring book. I know it's fiction but a crime solving Barbie type bimbo????????? The story is lame, predictable and to be honest insulting to anyone who is blonde or a hairdresser. The only reason for giving it one star is that there is no option to give it none. In short don't bother with this book, you will lose the will to live!