Summary
"Convinced there's more to life than giving blue dye jobs at Sandy's House of Beauty, Bubbles sets her sights on a career in journalism. If her on-the-job training at the local newspaper isn't enough to make her break a nail, she's also got her wacky family to deal with - from her bottom-feeding, social-climbing ex-husband, "Dan the Man," to her precocious teenage daughter, Jane, to her gun-toting, shoplifting mother, LuLu, who's recently hijacked the shuttle bus from the senior center." "Then Bubbles gets what may be her dream assignment - her high-school physics teacher is threatening to jump off the Lehigh Bridge. Surely she can answer a simple physics question and change his mind. Surely writing the story will lead to her Big Break. But instead of the fame and fortune she expects, she finds herself accompanying a sexy but elusive photographer with the improbable name of Stiletto on a wild ride through town, and lands up to her platinum roots in a massive lawsuit...and a nasty murder investigation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Publishers Weekly Review
Meet Bubbles Yablonsky, beautician-reporter-sleuth and blazing star of Strohmeyer's entertaining, establishment-bashing debut as a mystery writer. Like the mills that gird the book's seen-better-days steel town of Lehigh, Pa., the city is itself a seething cauldron. Battle lines are sharply drawn between the haves and have-nots. Bubbles is hell-bent on getting even with the overlords, especially her former husband, a heel who has gone over to the other side. Opportunity knocks when Bubbles incriminates a wealthy socialite in a brutal murder and then uncovers a murky past, where corpses are littered around the accused's steel-magnate husband. The going is never easy, as Bubbles faces more perils than Pauline: falling off a bridge in the arms of a potential suicide; dodging drive-by gunmen and car bombers; being handcuffed and fitted for cement boots; and always searching for a better way to display her cleavage. Armed with her certificate from Two Guys Community College, abetted by a quirky array of social castoffs and fueled by Doritos, Velveeta and Diet Pepsi, Bubbles overcomes every obstacle on her way to shaking the foundations of the corporate world and, in the process, leaving more than a few wrinkles in her ex's tailored Brooks Brothers suits. Hop in the Camaro and buckle up: Bubbles is behind the wheel, and a wild ride awaits. Agent, Heather Schroder at ICM. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc.
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