BUBBLES, beautician and sleuth is back for a fourth outing. She's in the soup after a catfight at a meeting nearly kills her career and her editors give her a week to prove her ability.

Her task is to find out who really murdered Carol Weaver's steel executive tycoon husband with cyanide-tipped fingernails. She may have stumbled upon corruption in the steel industry at the highest level, and into serious trouble. But it's all in a day's work for Bubbles who must also contend with the antics of her mother, her daughter Jane's education and who knows what else.

And then there's sexy photojournalist Steve Stiletto who is finally ready to make her story even more steamy.

Marion Simmonds