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Bubbles a Broad

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After a catfight at a stuffy historical society meeting nearly kills her career, Bubbles is given just one week to prove her worth to her editors at the News-Times and earn a real job there by cracking her biggest story ever: uncovering who really murdered Carol Weaver's steel-executive husband with cyanide-tipped fingernails. More than Carol's own jail sentence for the homicide is riding on Bubbles's investigation. Also at stake is the possibility of corruption in the highest level of Lehigh Steel.

Nothing will deter Bubbles this time! Not trying to drive with a cell phone in one hand and a mascara wand in the other. Not the shenanigans of her mother, Lulu, the pressure of getting her daughter into college (maybe Princeton, maybe Two Guys Community), or the roadblocks posed by Jane's clueless boyfriend, G. Not even hunky gonzo journalist Steve Stiletto, who finally brings Bubbles to steamy satisfaction between the sheets, can seriously distract her from the investigation. Gutsy, intuitive, and delivering her best one liners along with her latest beauty recipes, Bubbles is "behind the wheel and a wild ride awaits." (Publisher's Weekly)

"Strohmeyer's sharp dialogue gives her fourth an edge even Bubbles's clippers can't match."—Kirkus Reviews

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 29, 2004
      Broad humor, in more than one sense, permeates Strohmeyer's fourth amusing adventure (after 2003's Bubbles Ablaze
      ) of Bubbles Yablonsky, Lehigh, Pa.'s unique combination of hairdresser, single mother, aspiring journalist and bumbling sleuth. Bubbles doesn't so much solve a crime as wait until all the dust settles and then see what's left standing. While the management and the workers at Lehigh Steel wage class war, the irrepressible Bubbles tries to parlay her degree from Two Guys Community College and a one-week tryout at the News-Times
      into a full-time reporting gig. The appearance on her doorstep of Carol Weaver, convicted for the murder of her husband, a Lehigh Steel executive, newly escaped from prison and claiming that someone is trying to kill her, may be just the break Bubbles needs. Strohmeyer expertly plays Bubbles's blue-collar working class background against the monolithic Lehigh Steel's country club types and their wives. On the other hand, Strohmeyer's targets are so big that just hitting them isn't enough, and the frequent bull's-eyes don't impress as much as they might. Bubbles may be Two Guys' "Biggest Loser Ever," but she's good-hearted, persistent and very, very funny. Agent, Heather Schroder at ICM.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Heroine Bubbles Yablonsky, former hairdresser and now aspiring newspaper reporter assigned to cover the murder of an executive of Lehigh Steel Corporation, is most definitely not your typical sleuth. She is, however, funny and bright, and the hilarious meetings between this working-class gal and the local country club ladies are amusing and effective. As Bubble brashly goes where few others would dare, Barbara McCulloh's reading gets it all just right. Each character is rendered distinct and real. Moreover, McCulloh doesn't drop a clue as to the real villain's identity and handles the steamier scenes with aplomb. L.C. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine

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