It doesnt help that her names Bubbles. Or that shes a gum-snapping hairdresser with Barbie-doll curves pinched into hot pants and a tube top. Or that shes saddled with a sleazy ex-hubby, a precocious daughter and a shoplifting mother. What can a beautician do to add new highlights to her image? For starters, trip over a corpse, and implicate a wealthy town socialite in the crime. Now, with a well-muscled photographer by her side, Bubbles is playing star sleuth. But as the investigation unravels, her shining moment grows as dark as a shopgirls roots. However dangerous her new career, at least the hottest graduate of Two Guys Community College is finally busting looseand this time shes really giving Lehigh, Pennsylvania something to talk about.
Sarah Strohmeyer won the 2002 Agatha Award for best first mystery for Bubbles Unbound.
