Curtain Call for the Quiet Dead

Theo Marlowe thought he'd left tragedy behind with the fading footlights of vaudeville. Now the retired song-and-dance man runs the Marlowe Majestic, a once-glorious 1920s theater in the sleepy town of Larkspur Bluffs. With a revival variety show planned to restore both the stage and his own sense of purpose, Theo dusts off a long-neglected prop trunk-only to discover a bloodstained glove, a decades-old playbill, and a letter that suggests the mysterious onstage death of a former cast member was no accident.
The town remembers it as a tragic mishap. Theo begins to suspect murder. As old rivalries resurface and secrets seep from beneath layers of greasepaint and time, Theo must navigate fading egos, buried romances, and a killer who has spent forty years believing the past was safely locked away backstage. But in Larkspur Bluffs, the curtain never truly falls