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Steven Reynolds and Linda Coleman work an insurance fraud scam that nets them $1.6 million in cash. Private investigator Dan Ballantine works the case, and, after he locates the pair hiding in a remote mountain cabin in Idaho, calls in the … more

6400 gallons of water per second tear at Jennifer Posey?s young body forced against a screen at the bottom of the Monticello Dam overflow drain. A deputy sheriff found the suicide note she left in her Mercedes sedan. Brian Posey, Jennifer?s… more

Albert Romano is an avid hiker, bicyclist, and snow skier. He is also a career staff sergeant with the 319th Signal Battalion, a Sacramento U.S. Army Reserve unit. He’s been to Iraq twice and faces a third overseas tour of duty to Afghanis… more

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011, a Category Five tornado touches Earth west of Joplin, Missouri, and tears twenty-two miles easterly through the town. It kills 162 people and does two point two billion dollars worth of damage…. more

Victoria Voeght, a naive seventeen-year-old raised by a wealthy Newport Beach, California, widower, moves into a sorority house near USC and attends her first mixer at a pre-law fraternity. Friendly senior law student Phil Carter gives her … more

Six years and fifty weeks ago David Dobson and his partner, Morley Clayton, SCUBA dive in Lake Tahoe’s Crystal Bay. Suddenly Dobson clutches his chest, pushes his mouthpiece from his lips, and starts to sink. Morley tries to reach David, bu… more

The thirty-one member Young family gathers every year to spend spring break camping and riding the mountain bike trails around Moab, Utah.In the spring of 2012 twenty-six-year-old David stops his mountain bike for a water break on a single-… more

Private investigator Dan Ballantine found life insurance fraud in his last case and caused a man who helped murder a young woman go to prison for the rest of his life. Malachi, a suspected co-conspirator in that murder, got away clean.Just … more

In the fall of 1861, 18-year-old Pony Express rider Jedidiah Burns saddles up and leaves the Maverick Springs Station headed east toward the Butte Station about twelve miles away. Though he does not know it, his mochila contains $20,000 in … more

Heather Wright smashes her brain on a pointed rock that stops her fall from the Devil’s Postpile National Monument near Mammoth Lakes, California. A Park Ranger questions witnesses and all agree Heather’s husband, Tom Wright, was nowhere ne… more

At noon on the rainy Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, twenty-eight employees of Littmann’s Janitorial Service board a luxury tour bus reserved by their boss. As they mix cocktails and open beers, they talk about the annual weekend party the… more

The Creative Collaborarion Between Director, Writers, and Actors

Provides a dazzling array of useful tips to get the performances you want from your actors

Pliney Fiske is a timid young pension agent for the federal government who finds himself sprawled and bleeding in a barnyard in Concord, New Hampshire, the muzzle of a gun in his face and the Civil War veteran behind it quivering with rage…. more

While in the Congo on a humanitarian mission, Mark Travis, a US Air Force medic, is certain he’s seen a dinosaur. After ground workers are massacred by several deadly beasts, a diamond mine in the area is shut down due to the danger and Pre… more

Dan Ballantine, pulling his travel trailer in California’s Owens Valley before dawn, spots a body draped over the roadside berm. He brings his vehicles to a quick stop, runs back along the dark, quiet highway with his dog, Penny, and finds … more

Private investigator Dan Ballantine visits a Piper Cherokee crashed into Coyote Lake, a dry desert lake near the Oregon-Nevada border. Sacramento physician Steven Reynolds left a widow who is happy her cheating husband is dead, and she dema… more

On the opening day of deer season in a rural Northern California county, a hunter stalks and kills the buck of a lifetime. While admiring his trophy, another hunter murders him and steals his prize. New to the area Fish and Game Warden Etha… more

RAW collects a trio of tales written when Aaron Travis was in his early twenties and just beginning to explore the power of the erotic imagination, inspired by the freewheeling, frenzied gay scene of San Francisco in the late 1970s.The auda… more

A few years from now, when diesel fuel hits $10 per gallon, the Teamsters Union declares a nationwide strike. The independents eagerly join them. Within 48 hours angry citizens empty market shelves and gasoline station tanks. Armed gangs te… more