Bubbles All The Way [Mass Market Paperback]

Sarah Strohmeyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 7, 2006

The Agatha Award-winning series returns with a new tale of suspicions, steel-town secrets, and homicide by hair product.

For years the local ladies of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, have wished aloud that Debbie Shatsky would meet an untimely end-so they could get their hands on Phil Shatsky, sports-hating, dinner-cooking, massage-giving husband extraordinaire. But when Debbie gets hair extensions at the House of Beauty and dies from a reaction to the glue, it's salon owner Sandy who gets the blame. Her best friend Bubbles Yablonsky, reporter and sleuth, is determined to investigate-despite distractions from the two men in her life. And from a mysterious Santa Claus, who warns Bubbles not to cry, not to pout and not to scream...when he tries to kill her.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Bubbles Yablonsky is...bright, slightly trashy, [and] outrageously funny." - St. Petersburg Times

About the Author

Sarah Strohmeyer is the bestselling author of Sweet Love, The Cinderella Pact, The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, and the popular "Bubbles" series. She lives with her family outside Montpelier, Vermont.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Onyx (November 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451412273
• ISBN-13: 978-0451412270
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #626,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

When I stumbled into this business back in 1997 as a harried mother spoofing Barbie in BARBIE UNBOUND: A PARODY OF THE BARBIE OBSESSION, I had no idea that what started out as a lark would evolve into a career writing twelve novels published in multiple languages - from Thai to German - and even a Lifetime Original Movie: Lying to Be Perfect. Some have been bestsellers. A few have won awards, mostly, I think, by accident.

Now, with the publication of KINDRED SPIRITS, from Dutton, on June 30th, I've taken my writing down a different path, exploring women's friendship, what bonds us, what makes us do incredibly stupid things for one another and how a few martinis along the way can make it all worthwhile. (And, possibly, explain the stupid things per above.)

In KINDRED SPIRITS, I hope you'll not only make friends with Beth, Carol, Mary Kay and Lynne, but also get down to some serious martini making. Ginger, Lemon, Blue, Cosmopolitan - KINDRED SPIRITS has a bunch of recipes.
Here's one for a killer CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY MARTINI.

First, dip the rim of your martini glass in melted bittersweet chocolate and freeze.
Meanwhile, at the bottom of a martini shaker muddle a few fresh raspberries. Add raspberry vodka and Godiva chocolate liqueur plus a splash of Chambord. Shake vigorously with ice. Pour into chocolate- dipped glasses and garnish with fresh raspberries.

Hey. I really want to keep you entertained. But I never said anything about keeping you thin! :)

To learn more about me and my books, please visit http://www.sarahstrohmeyer.com or visit me on FB where I write stupid stuff almost hourly.

Sarah (and her trusty writing partner seen here, Fred)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What Was That?, February 23, 2007

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A Reader - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bubbles All The Way (Mass Market Paperback)

I'd grown a bit tired of this series, so all through the book I was excited because I felt this was the best one in awhile. However, the ending flushed all my goodwill right down the toilet.

Talk about coming out of left field. Not only that, but it was stupid -- and completely changes the whole vein of the series and the characters. I'm shocked the author would even think of going in this direction and risk losing so much of her audience.

So long, Bubbles...it was good knowing you.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Give me a break!, January 6, 2007

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Bobgirl (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bubbles All The Way (Mass Market Paperback)

After faithfully reading and truly enjoying all the other Bubbles books in the last few years, all of a sudden, I feel like I've been fooled! All the build-up to what we know and love about Bubbles is drastically wiped out and changed in the space of the last two pages???

I have to say that I had a hard time getting into this one and found myself skimming to get through. It is still funny, but I was not intrigued by the mystery and the whole relationship mess with Stiletto and Dan made me gag. We all know that Bubbles is very smart and savvy under the bimbo exterior, so why all of a sudden is she acting like one?

The ending is beyond frustrating, taking all my investment in Bubbles and tossing it aside. What does this mean for Bubbles and Stiletto? Who is he, really? How can she maintain her underdog appeal now that she is one no longer? Obviously, these are questions yet to be answered in the next installment, but I don't know if I care anymore.

I came to this series late and read the previous books back-to-back. It's almost as if, somewhere along the line, the author lost respect for her readers to so dramatically shift the storyline like this. Maybe another mystery to be solved as well?

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars WHAT?????????????????????????, July 7, 2008

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Jennifer Hinkle "jennalvsbks" (Bulls Gap, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bubbles All The Way (Mass Market Paperback)

WARNING: SPOILERS.
WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED TO SARAH STROHMEYER? I began this series last week. Actually I had read the first book over and year ago, so I re-read it and then the following fist this past week. When i finished "Bubbles all the way" I was pissed!!! This was one of the best series I have read (I usually read a book a day) So, I've read LOTS. It was becomming my favorite, even better than Stephanie Plum. Until the last 7 pages of this book. The author went and murdered the whole series in the last seven pages after writing this series for 6 years. I mean, what kind of brain-fart did this author have? The last pages of this book were the most ridiculous I have ever read in a non-childrens book. which is pretty much what the last few pages could have been. A 4-5 year old little girl wishes come true, I'm a princess book. I mean, what about the 6 months (time frame of the books) with Bubbles and Stilletto? Did he love her? Was it all just an undercover INTERPOL thing and her really never cared about Bubbles. Was stilletto even a photographer? What about the awards and things he had won?(mentioned in previous book)? What about his contract with AP when he couldn't even give Bubbles the pictures in the coal mine case? But yet in the last 2 pages he says he isn't a photographer? What about the pictures he took in book 1 of her jumping off the bridge and the dead guy in the park? How did DAN THE MAN know about this (god-awful) idiotic ending before Bubbles did? Was Stilletto and Mr. Salvo really child hood friends? And Stilletto being Henry Mertzer's step-son but someone only undercover the last 6 months for interpol but so tied to that town. I mean the WHOLE SERIES MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AFTER YOU READ THE LAST FEW PAGES OF "BUBBLES ALL THE WAY". What happens to Jane & G? Does Jane get to go the Princeton? Does Bubbles ever get the write journalism again? Why was the canned from NEWS TIMES. There were so many unanswered questions in the book, I'm still so pissed off I wasted this past week of life reading this series. 24 hours after reading the last page of BUBBLES ALL THE WAY, I'm still pissed. I PRAY Sarah Strohmeyer has sense enough (a stretch, I know after that last chapter) to write another book in this sereis and hopefully save what could have been the BEST & beyond Janet Evanovich.