title: Pocketbooks and Pistols (A Haley Randolph Mystery)
author:  Dorothy Howell 
description: <b>DOROTHY HOWELL</b> was inspired to write her first Haley Randolph mystery, <i>Handbags and Homicide</i>, by her crazed obsession with designer purses. She lives in Southern California, where there is, thankfully, no rehab program for handbag addiction, and is hard at work on her next Haley Randolph mystery. Visit her website at DorothyHowellNovels.com.
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  Wicked
  
  Jill Barnett
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  contents
  
  
  BOOK ONE
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  Chapter 2
  
  
  Chapter 3
  
  
  Chapter 4
  
  
  Chapter 5
  
  
  Chapter 6
  
  
  Chapter 7
  
  
  Chapter 8
  
  
  Chapter 9
  
  
  Chapter 10
  
  
  Chapter 11
  
  
  Chapter 12
  
  
  Chapter 13
  
  
  Chapter 14
  
  
  Chapter 15
  
  
  Chapter 16
  
  
  Chapter 17
  
  
  Chapter 18
  
  
  Chapter 19
  
  
  Chapter 20
  
  
  BOOK TWO
  
  
  Chapter 21
  
  
  Chapter 22
  
  
  Chapter 23
  
  
  Chapter 24
  
  
  Chapter 25
  
  
  Chapter 26
  
  
  Chapter 27
  
  
  Chapter 28
  
  
  Chapter 29
  
  
  Chapter 30
  
  
  Chapter 31
  
  
  Chapter 32
  
  
  Chapter 33
  
  
  Chapter 34
  
  
  Chapter 35
  
  
  Chapter 36
  
  
  Chapter 37
  
  
  epilogue
  
    
    
    
    
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are
  products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance
  to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  An Original Publication of POCKET BOOKS
  
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