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"Bodacious Bubbles is back"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 3, 2004

In Lehigh, Pennsylvania, Bubbles Yablonsky balances (some would say haphazardly while others would say that is an optimists' opinion) her profession as a hairdresser with her vocation as a reporter at the News-Times. Of course she also crosses that with being a single mom, going to community college, and Read more...

"Bubbles' keen wit and fortitude make her one broad I'd love to know."
Reviewed by Tanzey Cutter
Posted May 12, 2004

Bubbles Yablonsky, Lehigh, Pennsylvania beautician-turned- reporter, finally has her chance to secure a regular staff position at the local News-Times newspaper. She's just been given a one-week try-out for an official, full-time job, and she must not do anything to blow it. Easier said than done for Bubbles, who attracts trouble Read more...

Summary

Bubbles Yablonsky, everyone's favorite flaky hairdresser/ reporter/amateur sleuth, goes all the way in this latest wacky mystery starring the woman Jennifer Crusie calls "Pennsylvania's answer to Erin Brockovich... You're going to love her!" After a cat fight 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— finding out 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—uncovering possible corruption in the steel industry at the highest level. 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 mother LuLu, the pressure of getting daughter Jane into a good college (maybe Princeton, maybe Two Guys Community), or the roadblocks posed by Jane's ever-clueless boyfriend G. Not even hunky, gonzo photojournalist Steve Stiletto, who takes Bubbles to bed in a scene so steamy it finally puts pay to her Mel Gibson crush. Gutsy, intuitive, and delivering her best one-liners along with beauty recipes, Bubbles is "behind the wheel, and a wild ride awaits" (Publishers Weekly). It's all in a day's work for a broad like Bubbles.