Where to Start with The Greenroom Mysteries

Every theatre has two stories: the one the audience sees, and the one happening behind the curtain. Welcome to The Greenroom Mysteries, a cozy series set backstage at a small-town dinner theatre, where the show must go on, even when something has gone very wrong in the wings.

Meet Willa Sorrento

Willa runs maintenance at the Curtain Call Dinner Theatre in the river town of Carlow Bend, Ohio. She reads a building the way other people read faces: every creaking board, every rope in the fly loft, every light that flickers when it shouldn't. Nobody notices her work, which is exactly how she likes it. But when trouble comes to the Curtain Call, Willa notices what no one else can.

The Curtain Call Family

• Drew Teaberry runs the kitchen that feeds the dinner crowd.
• Tommy Loomis is the house manager who keeps the front of house running.
• Margot Kessler directs the shows.
• Burt Loomis founded the Curtain Call and still watches over every corner of it.

Why Start with Book 1

Each book has its own mystery, solved by the final curtain. But Carlow Bend has a long memory, the theatre family grows closer with every show, and old secrets from the town's past keep finding their way back on stage. Start at the beginning to catch every cue.

The Reading Order

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1. A Bitter Batch
A beloved coffee roaster is found dead in the theatre's greenroom days before opening night.

2. Dead on Cue
Hidden commands in the lighting board, and someone who wants the theatre dark.

3. Final Rigging
Five trucks of rigging for a three-truck show, and a cable running toward the oldest walls in the building.

4. Sharp Exit
Dry shoes on a wet floor, a missing clipboard, and a cold draft from the tunnel beneath the stage.

5. Last Call in the Loft
A reliable rigging hand misses his shift, and his tool bag is still up in the fly loft.

6. Red Penned
A playwright's pages slashed in red, pointing back to a scandal the theatre buried.

7. Off Script
A leading man ad-libs lines about a thirty-year-old fire, and never finishes the show.

8. After the Curtain
The old opera house has been dark for thirty years, but someone has been keeping it.

Who Will Love This Series

You'll feel right at home if you enjoy:

• Cozy, character-driven mysteries
• Life behind the scenes of a working theatre
• Small-town Midwest settings with a long memory
• A practical heroine who solves things with her hands and her eyes
• A found family you'll want to come back to

Ready to Begin?

All 8 books are available in paperback and hardcover right here in our store. Start with A Bitter Batch and take your seat at the Curtain Call.

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