The Sterling Inheritance (Michael Siverling)

This first novel is a cheerful, enjoyable murder mystery with some fun characters. The story centers around a burned body found outside a derelict theater that's being brought back to life, the family involved in the theater's past and present, and the detective agency investigating all of this. The mystery itself was interesting enough, though the plot was sometimes thin and the dialogue and characters sometimes a little too arch for realism. Still, I enjoyed it, and I already have the author's next book out of the library and will read it next.