Bubbles Betrothed (Bubbles Yablonsky Series #5)

Debuting as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands an interview with a woman accused of murdering a beloved high school principal. When the suspect keels over dead—in mid-revelation—Bubbles’s confidential notes become a life-threatening hot commodity among a romance-obsessed detective, a Polish Mafioso, and a foot fetishist on the lam. If that’s not enough to keep Bubbles on her toes, her ex-husband and her super-stud boyfriend Steve Stiletto are making some unexpected demands of the bleached-blonde sleuth. One comes with the promise of a dazzling Harry Winston rock. The other could be downright dangerous. Lucky for Bubbles she’s equipped—and ready—to handle both…

Agatha Award-winning author Sarah Strohmeyer delights readers everywhere with this fifth installment in the popular Bubbles Yablonsky series. Armed with her trusty high heels and unflappable demeanor, Bubbles stumbles into trouble when she interviews Crazy Popeye, the chief suspect in a local murder. To her dismay, Popeye dies mid-interview, and everyone from a pesky police detective to a Polish mafioso wants to pick her brain. What's more, Bubbles' head is set spinning when long-time love interest Steve Stiletto asks her to pose as his fiancée to avoid a job transfer.

Publishers Weekly

In Strohmeyer's wacky fifth mystery starring Bubbles Yablonsky (after 2004's Bubbles a Broad), the former hairdresser and queen of the tube tops dons her first business suit ($30 hot pink skirt and jacket on layaway) to interview accused murderer Jill "Crazy Popeye" Simon for the Lehigh, Pa., News-Times, in Simon's holding cell. Unfortunately, Simon expires in mid-sentence after claiming she actually tried to save the victim, Liberty High School's beloved principal, Rudy Schmidt, who choked to death on the tie shoved down his throat. Bubbles's interview notes prove to be of interest to a number of delightfully goofy characters, including a Polish mafioso and a podiatrist with a foot fetish. Meanwhile, Bubbles hears that her boyfriend, stud-for-the-ages reporter Steve Stiletto, has announced he is engaged-to her-in a ploy to keep from getting transferred to London. This isn't exactly the kind of proposal she had fantasized. Strohmeyer pokes fun at Bubbles and her cohorts, but with obvious respect and fondness. Agent, Heather Schroder at ICM. Author tour. (Apr. 11) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Award-winning novelist Sarah Strohmeyer is the author of four previous bestselling Bubbles titles: Bubbles A Broad, Bubbles Ablaze, Bubbles in Trouble, and Bubbles Unbound, which won an Agatha Award. She has worked as a journalist for many publications, including The Boston Globe, the Plain Dealer, and Salon.com.