Bubbles Ablaze
E P Dutton
Mystery
June 26, 2003
ISBN-13: 0525947388
Available in: Hardcover
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.
Sarah Strohmeyer has written for numerous publications, including The Boston Globe, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Salon.com. She lives with her husband and two children outside Montpelier, Vermont. The author of Bubbles Unbound, Bubbles in Trouble, and Bubbles Ablaze, she can be reached at www.sarahstrohmeyer.co m.