Bubbles Ablaze

By Sarah Strohmeyer

Book Overview

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 Ablazefinds the redoubtable Ms. Bubbles Yablonsky heeding a call from her boss at the News-Timesand 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525947388
• ISBN13: 9780525947387
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.1" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Here we go again!

Hold on to your hat, we're off on another adventure. Sarah Strohmeyer is a talent that shouldn't be missed. Bubbles is laugh out loud funny, witty, and as always a joy to read. Don't miss what could be the best book of the year.

Watch out, Janet Evanovich!

I am a die hard fan of the Stephanie Plum series, but I thinkSarah Strohmeyer's heroine, Bubbles, has Stephanie out classed.Sarah Strohmeyer is definately an author to watch. All three installments in the Bubbles series (which I read for the first time this weekend) are saucy, upbeat and fun. In an age where so many female heoines (can we say Stephanie?) are smart and good at just about everything they do, Bubbles is real. She could be your next-door-neighbor. She could be you. Ms. Strohmeyer has created a loveable cast of characters. I love these books!

Bubbles Fun

Have you read the other Bubbles books? If you have not, stop right here and go read the others! They are very funny and witty! Bubbles, our favorite living Polish-Lithuanian Barbie, is using her investigative skills again. The lust of her life is injured as her practical-joking cousin-in-law is on the lam and Bubbles has to find out what is going on in coal country. Mama Lulu is here running a pierogie shop with Genevieve and Jane is back with G. Then to confuse issues there is Zeke, and ya gotta love his parents! Also, the author of this book is really nice and very involved with her yahoo group!

A must-buy--great fun reading!

This is the third in the Bubbles series, one of the few series of books that I buy instead of waiting to get them from the library. If you're a fan of authors like Crusie, Evanovich, Heller, Bartholomew, Hayter, etc., you'll love these books. I love this genre--the humorous romantic mystery-and am always on the lookout for new authors to read, and was happy to discover Bubbles a couple of years ago. I totally recommend Bubbles books (Bubbles Unbound, Bubbles in Trouble, and now Bubbles Ablaze) to anyone looking for a fun read.

Great vacation read!

The author has done it again! Another fast read. Once you start, you do not want to put it down. The characters in the book are a pleasure to know and some of the things that happen will have you laughing out loud. This is a fun mystery series to read. Each book gets better and better. This author is a keeper!