Jerry Kalman: 8 books

Aida and Harley Joe are two ghosts who haunt Bodie, a one-time gold rush town in the eastern Sierra and now a California State Park. Their deaths by an anonymous assassin left them with a grave and the need to get park rangers to help them locate their bodies 100 years later so they can terminate their haunts. Rick Entwhistle and Rhonda Satterfield, are ensnared in the search.

After the attacks of 9-11 take his wife and career, John takes to the road, surviving as a homeless man in New England. On his second fall season in the region, he meets Bernice Topham, who has a problem with an organized crime syndicate that wants to force her out of business: selling Canadian meds to seniors.

SS December, a floating crematorium, plies the Caribbean to give "elderly" passengers a last fling as tourists before euthanizing them for public good. One couple from the United States wants to live out their days without government imposed death sentences, escaping into the Central American jungles to a risky freedom.

Winston Cooper, curator of neo-modern art at a museum of contemporary art in this short story, encounters the ghost of an artist whose final work is on display. The ghost asks Winston to finalize two pieces of art hanging on the wall. Dismayed that he allowed unfinished work to be displayed, Winston agrees to make the “finishing touches” on the paintings.

Noids come to Earth through a vortex near Sedona, Arizona. When a Noid inhabits the body of a dead Latina, it starts Walt Martinson on a quest to determine how Noids get to Earth through a vortex.

Thomas Knee, geek turned revolutionary, wants to disrupt the 2016 presidential election using a NetPad and social networking. He funds his venture by hacking into aging Las Vegas slots. Accompanied by a former chorine, Knee seeks inspiration at the Moral (Salt Lake) and Digital (rural Idaho) centers...

A sacred urn, entrusted to Egyptologist Dr. Perry Grainger, carries more than the remains of Nefertiti, one of the most beautiful and controversial women in the ancient world. It contains her spirit. Joining him searching for Nefertiti's tomb in the pharaohs' burial grounds along the Nile River is an American beauty queen and actress.

When his grandfather dies under questionable circumstances James Decatur, an aggressive young venture capitalist with a hot new market ready product, has several erotic adventures while he tries to unravel the mystery of who is killing the old man's girl friends in rural southern California.