Synopsis: Justice Affirmed
Private investigator Butch Greiner believes his career is easing up as he moves from Ohio to live in the Austin, Texas area at the persistent requests of his cousin. However, his thoughts of retirement are short-lived as he is persuaded to take on a new assignment for his insurance company client. The client wants him to check out a robbery-murder-fire at their insured, the Dresden Corporation. He discovers he cannot help his client since the Dresden crime does not present an unusual or unexpected liability issue. Butch does learn that the Dresden operation is a shell company which allows its parent, Garrison Industries, to engage in large-scale money laundering. Chapman Garrison, the son of Garrison CEO Morton Garrison, is also covertly dealing drugs unbeknown to his father, which further complicates attempts to cover up Garrison crimes. Debbie Beasley, wife of Donnie Ray Beasley, the Dresden employee murder victim, who was shot to death in the course of the robbery, wants Butch to find her husband’s killers. She does not believe law enforcement will care enough about ex-con Donnie Ray to seek justice. Reluctantly, Butch agrees to look for Donnie Ray’s killers. The path for that investigation is littered with additional murder and robbery. Both Debbie and Butch’s lives are threatened as they attempt to seek justice for Donnie Ray, a justice which is very elusive. Along the way, tequila loving Debbie twice proves how handy she is with a pistol; to her benefit and Butch’s. The Garrisons move to eliminate Debbie, Butch, and others who can testify to their schemes, but find themselves enmeshed with law enforcement. Justice is affirmed, however hollow that is for Debbie.
Synopsis: No Time for Eulogy
Jack Phillips, Columbus, Ohio, ad exec, is shocked to learn his son, J.W., has committed suicide in Atlanta. Before he can confirm any details of J.W.’s death he has doubts his son would take his own life. Jack travels to Atlanta to learn what really happened, discovering that murder and drug dealing are part of the story, and shocking revelations about his son come to light. Jack twice escapes being killed himself as he unravels the truth. Conflicted in his feelings and lost in the passion of chasing every lead, Jack finds no time for the eulogy of his son.
Synopsis: A Matter of Revenge
Our story tells how private eye Butch Greiner who, while investigating a friend’s murder, is caught in a drug war between two factions protecting turf. It’s evil versus evil as tension between the opposing gangs increases with attacks and retaliations. Each incident of revenge provokes escalation of the conflict. The FBI, DEA, and ATF, caught up in their own internal struggles and agendas, track both gangs. Butch becomes informant to the Feds and intermediary for the gangs with scant control of the deteriorating situation. For Butch, the final shocking act of revenge brings only frustration and disillusionment.
Synopsis: A Pattern of Deceit
Private investigator Butch Greiner tries to help Sheriff’s Detective Larry Quinn find a murderer who has left no apparent clues. This killing is just part of the complex impact that auto parts manufacturer DME Corporation has on the small lakeside town of Sandusky, Ohio. Double-dealing, political payoffs, and jealousy lead to three more murders as a web of deceit envelops the lives of two DME executives, confronts county commissioner Karen O’Neal, and frustrates Detective Quinn. Butch does not realize he has become caught up in a case that ultimately has very tragic results.
Synopsis: A Sense of Rage
Private investigator Butch Greiner tracks Kyle Dixon through Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Riverside County as the eco-terrorist plans to bomb select water and electrical distribution facilities. Dixon believes the public has no idea how resources are being wasted and how the environment is being destroyed, and worse, cares little about the consequences. His sense of rage makes him sure that the only way to draw attention to the problem is to take away what people take for granted. The chase leaves Butch one step behind the chaos and destruction Dixon and his men create.
Synopsis: The Price of Redemption
Farmer Delwin Howe is struck by lightning and left unable to speak coherently. His minister, Reverend Randy Stone, interprets this as speaking in “tongues” and with the help of church trustee, Tom Fletcher, uses Del’s affliction to further his ministry in a high stakes bid for national prominence in a world of evangelistic competition. Stone succumbs to the temptations of infidelity and wanton personal success that detour him from a moral path. His struggles with his commitment to God eventually lead to his subsequent reaffirmation and desire for redemption. In The Price of Redemption everything has a cost.
Synopsis: The Actress
Attractive and talented career-driven woman seeking some kind of reality as an actress, wife and mother, struggles with her own inner sense of life continuity while contending with her abusive husband and the problems of her four sons. She becomes enmeshed in the struggle for her own sanity being tantalized by career success and a new found world of physical sensuality, while succumbing to the temptations of pleasure. The story moves from the Midwest to Denver to Los Angeles as she tries to outrun the destiny foreshadowing her life.
Synopsis: An Uncertain Chance
An Uncertain Chance is the story of Cassie Willis, 42-year old divorced, advertising woman executive in Baltimore who realizes she has hit the glass ceiling, feels she is going nowhere in her personal life, and decides to make a radical life change. She wants to escape the domination of her step-father, with whom she lives, and the tedium of her job. At the invitation of her college roommate, she trailers her horse and moves from the comfortable life in Hunt Valley, Maryland, to the mountains of Colorado to pursue a new career as a free-lance photographer. What follows is an awakening to a new world where she faces danger, has a change of perceptions, develops a reevaluated sense of life expectations, and new love. This is a contemporary story of a woman who meets her mid-life crisis head-on and wins.