- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Headline; New Ed edition (4 May 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755302621
- ISBN-13: 978-0755302628
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 569,716 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘A breezy and funny mystery with a heroine who dresses like a Barbie doll and kicks ass like a marine’
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4.0 out of 5 stars
more capers with the blonde hairdresser,
By Lindymck (Falkirk, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bubbles Ablaze (Paperback)
more adventures with bubbles the blonde hairdresser turned reporter. she gets involved in a murder investigation yet again and drags everybody into it. set in slagville PA which is a coal town stuck in 1950's mode so some funny moments there!!! lots of fun and silly moments which kept me awake on a niteshift at work!
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4.0 out of 5 stars (29 customer reviews) 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-buy--great fun reading!,
By Caroline - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bubbles Ablaze (Bubbles Books) (Hardcover)
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very mixed bag: a generous 2 for plot, 4+ for characters,
By Barbara L. Pinzka "Book Friend" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bubbles Ablaze (Bubbles Books) (Hardcover)
This is the third entry in a slapdash, over-the-top mystery series featuring Bubbles Yablonsky, a hairdresser who looks like trailer trash but who longs to become a respected journalist. On the way to her goal, she stumbles and bumbles into one mystery after another, with the aid and support of the Mel-Gibson-esque Steve Stilleto, a top-level news photographer, whom she met on her first assignment.
Bubbles lives in a small blue/black-collar town in a part of America usually forgotten - the coal mines of Pennsylvania. Every character has a story connected to mining; Bubbles' father was killed when she was a young girl because, her family believes, he was a union organizer. Steve, the estranged step-son of a ruthless mine owner, hates his connection to the misery wreaked by Big Coal on innocent men and women. It's almost impossible to describe a Strohmeyer plot; in a review of an earlier book in the series I think I said she used every idea she ever had. In my 40-some years of mystery-reading I can't think of a more convoluted (and somewhat ridiculous and highly unbelievable) plot. In this outing Bubbles has left hairdressing for journalism and gets involved in a life-threatening, mysterious "accident" in a mine thought to be dormant and where a murder occurs while she and Steve are there after receiving mysterious messages. The race is on, with casino gambling, underground mine fires, a pierogi fight and who-knows-what's-next among the dozen or so plots and sub-plots. Normally that would bother me. But Strohmeyer has a tremendous gift for creating eccentric characters, ones you usually can't help but love and want more of. Bubbles can spot a phony ten miles away, but her big heart accepts even the strangest individual, if s/he is hurt and honest (except the multi-pierced "G," a suitor for the hand of her beloved, ultra-smart daughter, Jane, whom she has raised single-handedly and for whom she wants a better future than that which Bubbles endured. Strohmeyer's work resembles that of reigning working-class detectives' Queen Janet Evanovich, but I like Bubbles and her crew more (making me, a NJ native, a traitor of sorts). Their stories, like Bubbles, continue to develop in each book. Your suspension of disbelief will have to be extra-willing at times, but the fun to be had makes it worthwhile. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lighthearted amateur sleuth,
By Peggy Vincent "author and reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Bubbles Ablaze (Bubbles Books) (Hardcover)
This one reminds me a bit of Nancy and Ned in the old Nancy Drew books. It's hard to take a mystery seriously when the main character is named Bubbles and the guy's name (well, his last name) is Stiletto. Bubbles, true to her name, looks frothy and wears Spandex, but we're to believe a mind hides beneath the hair spray (reminiscent of Legally Blonde) as she investigates what appears to be theft, extortion and maybe murder.Totally silly, but fun. |
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