num_pages: 352
description: It doesn’t help that her name’s Bubbles. Or that she’s a gum-snapping hairdresser with Barbie-doll curves pinched into hot pants and a tube top. Or that she’s 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 shopgirl’s roots. However dangerous her new career, at least the hottest graduate of Two Guys Community College is finally busting loose—and this time she’s really giving Lehigh, Pennsylvania something to talk about. Sarah Strohmeyer won the 2002 Agatha Award for best first mystery for Bubbles Unbound.
language: English
title: Bubbles Unbound
titlecomplete: Bubbles Unbound (Bubbles Yablonsky, #1)
characters: Bubbles Yablonsky, Steve Stiletto
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Chick Lit, Romance, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 5878
places: Lehigh, Pennsylvania
series: Bubbles Yablonsky
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Barry Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best First Novel
publisher: Signet (Penguin Group USA Inc.)