When Bubbles' latest antics land her in a jail cell with
Crazy Popeye, a loony-toons murder suspect who wants to
spill the beans about the untimely demise of the beloved
school principal she's accused of killing, what's a bona
fide investigative reporter to do but take notes. As
Bubbles is furiously writing down her exclusive interview,
Popeye suddenly keels over -- dead. Now, those interview
notes become the hottest item in Lehigh, Penn., as
everybody seems to want them.
If being pursued by the cops isn't enough pain-in-the-butt
excitement, Bubbles also has to deal with a plant-loving
Polish Mafioso, a female podiatrist who goes missing and a
judge who's fined her $100 a minute until she turns over
her notes. Meanwhile, adding to Bubbles' stress level is
sleazy ex-husband Dan, who's been dipping into the till at
work and demands her help; daughter Jane, who's anxiously
awaiting word on whether she's been accepted at Princeton;
and deliciously sexy boyfriend Steve Stilleto, who wants
her to pose as his fiancée so he can get out of an overseas
assignment. When he presents her with a diamond the size of
a rock, Bubbles has visions of a married life with Steve,
but the imagined scenario turns out to be scarier than she
once thought. What's a Lehigh Valley girl to do? When
Bubbles is involved, it's anybody's guess!
Oh, boy, it felt like coming home as I once again immersed
myself in the lives of all the characters Strohmeyer so
eloquently creates in this series. Bubbles has a sense of
humor that's infectious as she goes through life with
passion, zeal and pure guts. This is no wimpy, whiny,
scatterbrained bleach-blonde -- no matter what her façade
may indicate. In the end, she gets the job done and comes
out a winner. My kind of woman! As with the other novels in
this series, I read it in one setting and had a ball doing
so! I can't wait for Bubbles' next investigative
assignment.
On her first day as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands in
jail with a murder suspect named Crazy Popeye, who grants
Bubbles an exclusive interview shortly before keeling over
herself. Suddenly, Bubbles’s interview notes are a hot
commodity among a romance- obsessed police detective, a
Polish Mafioso, and a podiatrist on the lam. Meanwhile, her
longtime boyfriend, Steve Stiletto, asks if she’ll pose as
his fiancée in order to stave off an overseas job transfer.
When he plunks a Harry Winston rock on Bubbles’s finger,
only the specter of an all-you-can-eat pierogi wedding
buffet down at the Polish-American Club, the inevitable
result if her mother LuLu finds out, stops Bubbles from
blurting out "Yes!"
Once again our not-so-scatterbrained bleached-blonde flits
between crime scenes with unflappable verve. Like us,
Bubbles frequently messes up, but she always pulls herself
onto her tottering high heels and heads back into the fray.
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