Sarah Strohmeyer Books In Order

Bubbles Yablonsky Books In Publication Order

  1. Bubbles Unbound (2001)
  2. Bubbles In Trouble (2002)
  3. Bubbles Ablaze (2004)
  4. Bubbles A Broad (2004)
  5. Bubbles Betrothed (2005)
  6. Bubbles All The Way (2006)
  7. Bubbles Reboots (2018)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives (2005)
  2. The Cinderella Pact (2006)
  3. The Sleeping Beauty Proposal (2007)
  4. Sweet Love (2008)
  5. The Penny Pinchers Club (2009)
  6. Kindred Spirits (2011)
  7. Smart Girls Get What They Want (2012)
  8. How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True (2013)
  9. The Secrets of Lily Graves (2014)
  10. This Is My Brain on Boys (2016)
  11. Do I Know You? (2021)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession (1997)

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Sarah Strohmeyer Books Overview

Bubbles Unbound

Meet Lehigh, Pennsylvania’s own Bubbles Yablonsky a tube top wearing, gum snapping hairdresser turned gun toting gumshoe. From solving dark crimes to lightening dark roots, this hot sleuth in hot pants has everyone talking.

Bubbles In Trouble

New York Times bestselling author Susan Andersen called Bubbles Unbound ‘rollicking good fun. Bubbles rocks!’ The Houston Chronicle praised it as ‘riotous…
a strong debut.’ And award winning author Carolyn Hart crowned it ‘fizzy as bicarb, funny as Evanovich…
should bubble right to the top of the bestseller lists.’ Now the spandex wearing, cleavage baring hairstylist journalist and sleuth from Lehigh, Pennsylvania, returns in another wacky, wisecracking mystery that offers a few priceless beauty tips along the way. New troubles for Bubbles: Her friend, bride to be Janice, never showed up at the altar, and everybody’s blaming Bubbles for singing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Free Bird’ at the bachelorette party the night before. Now Bubbles has just found Janice’s uncle Elwood dead on his bathroom floor his skull bashed in and his Rolls Royce missing. The baffling murder could be her Big Break as Bubbles goes deep undercover in Whoopee, Pennsylvania located between Intercourse and Paradise as a ‘plain girl from Ohio’ boarding with a local Amish family. That means no spandex, no showers, and…
no makeup. When she’s not helping out on the farm, Bubbles searches for clues with the usual hilarious results. Featuring a cast of characters that includes a chocolate baking neo Na*zi; a shoofly pie obsessed Dutchman; Bubbles’ loony mother, LuLu; her precocious teenage daughter, Jane; and that love’em and leave’em hunk, Stiletto along with selected Dutch country beauty recipes Bubbles In Trouble is another rip roaring adventure in a rapidly growing mystery series with ‘never a dull moment’ bestselling author Fay Weldon.

Bubbles Ablaze

The irrepressible hero*ine of Sarah Strohmeyer’s Agatha Award winning series makes her usual headline grabbing entrance just in time to heat up Pennsylvania’s coal country in another rip roaring tale of murder and mayhem. Bubbles Ablaze finds the redoubtable Ms. Bubbles Yablonsky heeding a call from her boss at the News Times and racing her Camaro toward a potentially big news story. But when she arrives at an abandoned coal mine, she finds the love of her life, Steve Stiletto, knocked unconscious…
and the body of another man with a sizeable hole in his chest. Moments later, Bubbles and Stiletto are trapped by an explosion. Convinced that someone wants them dead, they search for their intended assassin in coal country, where they uncover a conspiracy at the Main Mane hairdressing salon, a cadre of women known as the Sirens of Slagville, and a hot spot called Limbo that’s been burning underground for forty years. With a cast of characters headed by the usual suspects Bubbles’s brainy teenage daughter Jane; Jane’s clueless boyfriend G; and that dynamite duo, her mother LuLu and paranoid sidekick Genevieve and led by the singular Bubbles herself, this is another fast and furious tale that will keep readers in Limbo and in stitches.

Bubbles A Broad

A high profile murder has landed at Bubbles’s pretty feet. The victim: a local steel executive. The accused: his lovely wife. The weapon: cyanide laced fingernails. If anyone can solve a well manicured slaying like this, it’s Bubbles. And nothing’s going to stop her. Not even hunky photojournalist Steve Stiletto, who vows that this time, he’s getting everything he wants from Bubbles. But how far is the amateur sleuth in spandex willing to go to get what she wants?

Bubbles Betrothed

In her most engaging tale yet, zany supersleuth Bubbles Yablonsky wows her fans with her investigative savvy and high energy adventures.

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 fianc e 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.

Bubbles All The Way

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.

The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives

From the creator of the inimitable, zany sleuth Bubbles Yablonsky comes a witty, wild, and shocking tale about love suburban style. News bulletin: Gone is HBO’s Sex and the City. Sex has moved to the suburbs. Here is where you ll find ABC s 1 TV show Desperate Housewives. Here too is The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, a hilarious but poignant and spot on novel about love and betrayal inside the world of the gated community.

Pampered Hunting Hills, Ohio, socialite Marti Denton never realized she was madly in love with John Harding until he impulsively married Claire Stark, a beautiful but socially awkward newspaper reporter to whom a ‘coming out’ party is a controversy, not a tradition. It s not until the Hunting Hills wives are plunged into a series of explosive scandals that the two women reach a new understanding of each other and what it means to be a fortunate wife in the twenty first century. In The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, Sarah Strohmeyer has written a Stepford Wives for our time funny, wise, and eye opening.

The Cinderella Pact

In this funny and big hearted story by the author of The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, three best friends make a pact to transform themselves into the glamorous women they’ve always wanted to be. Nola Devlin has a secret identity. By day she is an overweight, frumpy, and overlooked editor at Sass! the ‘celebrity magazine with an edge!’, but by night she slips behind her keyboard and into her alter ego: Belinda Apple. Belinda is thin, gorgeous, British and the author of a trendy advice column she is, in effect, the latest Carrie Bradshaw. Not even Nola’s two best friends or her self absorbed sister who worships Belinda as the ‘sister she never had’ know her secret. When ‘Belinda’ jots off a column about how easy it is to lose weight, Nola is shocked when her best friends take her own lies to heart and urge her to follow Belinda’s weight loss program. Since Nola can’t reveal herself as the real Belinda Apple, she bites the bullet and joins her friends in making the ‘Cinderella Pact’ a last ditch attempt to lose weight again! and transform their lives for good. But as the pounds come off, things don’t turn out the way the three friends expect. Their journey of self discovery leads to the return of an old love and the unmasking of new problems. Meanwhile, Nola finds herself torn between two different men as she stomps out fires caused by her deception as Belinda Apple and falls in love with the man who just might be her prince or the rat in coachman’s clothing.

The Sleeping Beauty Proposal

A wickedly funny fairy tale for modern women from Sarah Strohmeyer,the ‘laugh out loud funny’ Washington Post Book World author of The Cinderella Pact and The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives. ‘Opening a book by Sarah Strohmeyer is like opening a box of chocolates sweet, nutty, and absolutely irresistible.’ Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries At 36, Genie Michaels is beginning to feel that she has hit the snooze button on her life one too many times. When her ‘commitment phobic’ boyfriend Hugh proposes on national TV not to Genie, but to an unknown mystery woman Genie’s wise cracking friend Patty doesn t hesitate to give her some tough love: ‘You remind me of that idiot Sleeping Beauty, lying around like a zombie waiting for your prince. Well, guess what, he rode right past your castle and now you have a choice you can either go back to bed or you can wake up!’ Genie chooses to wake up. After some questionable advice, her first step is to allow everyone to believe she s Hugh s real fianc e. She ll let him be the one to explain the mistake. Naturally the good news travels fast and, in a heartbeat, Genie s parents are booking a reception hall while friends are showering her with gifts. Genie feels bad about the deception, but at last everyone is dancing to her tune, and she can t help but enjoy it. Particularly when a certain too handsome for his own good Greek carpenter shows up on the scene thinking he s hotter than Tabasco. Genie realizes that she never needed a man to start her life to buy a home, to get a better job, or even to wear a diamond ring. And if Prince Charming wants to show up while she s at it, she just might teach him a thing or two.

Sweet Love

An irresistibly delicious novel about the power of love and dessert. Like other well meaning mothers, Julie Mueller’s believed she did the right thing when she secretly ended her teenage daughter s crush on Michael Slayton, a wild older neighborhood heartthrob with a penchant for Shakespeare and the pedigree of trailer trash. Twenty years later, Betty Mueller has come to realize that was a big mistake. Her daughter Julie divorced and raising a teenage daughter alone is a workaholic obsessed with her career. And Michael, the one man who could make her happy, is the one man to whom she won t speak. Now dying and determined to make amends, Betty stages her last great feat of motherhood by reuniting the couple in a dessert class where she hopes the sweetness of a chocolate almond Torta Caprese will erase the bitterness of a wretched misunderstanding. Sweet Love, renew thy force; be it not said thy edge should blunter be than appetite, Shakespeare once pleaded though it will require more than poetry and passion fruit for Julie and Michael to renew their love. It will, in fact, require the sweetest sacrifice of all.

The Penny Pinchers Club

Bestselling author Sarah Strohmeyer offers up a timely and recession proof treat about the things money can and can’t buy. Living in New Jersey the state that boasts the most malls per capita Kat’s favorite recreational activity is a no brainer: shopping. But when she discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it’s time to start saving.

Drastic times call for drastic measures: Kat starts by canceling cable and kicking her $240 a month Starbucks habit. But what starts out as a simple effort to cut costs becomes an over the top obsession when Kat joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called The Penny Pinchers Club. Soon she is pumping her gas at dawn when it is thicker and serving dinner made from food she retrieved at the grocery store dumpster. Kat is saving money, to be sure, but what she’s really saving is time time she spends with Griff, their two kids…
and an old flame who resurfaces at precisely the wrong moment, offering Kat a life where money is no object.

An irresistible and wonderfully warm hearted novel about the unexpected ways hardship can lead to happiness, The Penny Pinchers Club is the perfect pick me up for these troubled times.

Kindred Spirits

When life gives you lemons, call your best girlfriends and whip up some lemon martinis. Such is the mantra for the Ladies’ Society for the Conservation of Martinis, which was established after one fateful PTA meeting, when four young mothers Lynne, Mary Kay, Beth, and Carol discovered they had more in common than they ever thought possible. Meeting once a month, the women would share laughs and secrets and toast to their blossoming friendship with a clink of their sacred martini glas*ses. The Society was their salvation, their refuge, but when life shattering circumstances force the group to dissolve, their friendship is never quite the same…
until two years later, when a tragic event puts the Society back in session. When Lynne pas*ses away suddenly, she leaves behind one simple request: that her old friends sort through her belongings. Reluctantly, the women reunite to rummage through her closets. There’s nothing remarkable; no kinky sex toys, no embarrassing diary. But buried deep within Lynne’s lingerie drawer is an envelope addressed to the Society. And inside they find a letter that reveals a shocking secret and a final wish that will send the women on a life changing journey…
proving that nothing is more powerful than the will of a true girlfriend and a good, strong martini.

Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the Barbie Obsession

In this play guide spoof, Barbie is liberated from her pink plastic world of fashion modeling and Corvette driving to assume roles that real women have endured for years. Here readers will find Safe Sex Barbie, Barbie Antoinette, Anita Hill Barbie, Marie Curie Barbie, and, in honor of her upcoming 40th anniversary, Hot Flash Barbie who comes complete with tiny estrogen supplements. 40 photos.

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