The Sweetie Pie Murder
(2025)(The fourth book in the Agatha & Smitty Murder Mystery series)
A novel by Sara M Barton
In this stand-alone cozy mystery, Smitty and Agatha’s glorious honeymoon only lasts 55 hours before they have to rush back to Vermont to investigate the murder of Smitty’s protected witness, Angelica Torricelli, owner of Sweetie Pie’s. The beloved piemaker extraordinaire was discovered strangled and left in her walk-in refrigerator by her twelve-year-old son, Nick.
The chief suspect behind the killing is ‘Brutal Bruno Schmidt’, the ruthless New York mob boss. Did he send a hitman to Vermont to kill the angelic baker to prevent her from testifying again?
Can Nick Torricelli, now orphaned, help Smitty and his homicide team collect the clues and the forensic evidence for his mother’s murder case? As a budding chef, this kid knows his way around a kitchen. He knows details about his mom’s business that no one else knows. And boy, did he inherit his mother’s cooking talents.
But when he becomes the target of a non-fiction crime author looking to publicize his new book on ‘Brutal Bruno Schmidt’, nosy reporters, and the mobster’s thugs, Agatha and Smitty go into panic mode. How can they hide Nick in plain sight and convince the snoopers that Nick is their son? It will take a miracle to make that happen. Luckily, Agatha, Smitty, and Smitty’s family are prepared to go the distance once Agatha decides that ‘'''Nobody, and I do mean nobody, messes with my family, capisce?’
Genre: Mystery
The chief suspect behind the killing is ‘Brutal Bruno Schmidt’, the ruthless New York mob boss. Did he send a hitman to Vermont to kill the angelic baker to prevent her from testifying again?
Can Nick Torricelli, now orphaned, help Smitty and his homicide team collect the clues and the forensic evidence for his mother’s murder case? As a budding chef, this kid knows his way around a kitchen. He knows details about his mom’s business that no one else knows. And boy, did he inherit his mother’s cooking talents.
But when he becomes the target of a non-fiction crime author looking to publicize his new book on ‘Brutal Bruno Schmidt’, nosy reporters, and the mobster’s thugs, Agatha and Smitty go into panic mode. How can they hide Nick in plain sight and convince the snoopers that Nick is their son? It will take a miracle to make that happen. Luckily, Agatha, Smitty, and Smitty’s family are prepared to go the distance once Agatha decides that ‘'''Nobody, and I do mean nobody, messes with my family, capisce?’
Genre: Mystery
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