I am taking a little break from my writing blog posts and getting ready for a Local Author Event tomorrow in Mayo, Florida to hawk the book I have published and the one I hope to have published before the end of the year. There is nothing I like better than quirky characters, a well written story and, of course, a good mystery to solve. So picking randomly from a listing of women detective characters I found on WIKI I chose to read the first book in the Bubbles Yablonsky Mystery Series called Bubbles Unbound. It was published in 2001 and has 5 other books in the series should I want to pursue more on this character. From the reviews I have read and the excerpts on Amazon it looks like I am going to enjoy it tremendously.
Here is the write-up on Amazon:
For the first time ever, BUBBLES UNBOUND in ebook form and better than ever! This “Author’s Preferred Version” has been revised with better writing (we hope!) and more fun. Find out why it won the prestigious Agatha Award’s BEST FIRST NOVEL and ditto from Romantic Times.
From the Publisher’s Weekly review of the Penguin/NAL edition: 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.
Give her a chance and see if you like her too.
Bubbles Yablonsky is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by American novelist Sarah Strohmeyer. Bubbles is a hairdresser-turned-sleuth in the town of Lehigh, Pennsylvania. One thing that she has that makes her a suitable sleuth is a journalism degree. Bubbles is divorced, has a child and is of Polish-Lithuanian descent.
Bubble Unbound – Book 1 – 2001
Bubbles In Trouble – Book 2 – 2002
Bubbles Ablaze – Book 3 – 2003
Bubbles A Broad – Book 4 – 2004
