Jesse Kalfel, an author, and playwright who is the recipient of two Hatch Awards and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, has completed his most recent book, “Paper Ghosts: A Fenn Cooper Novel.” This newest work is a gripping tale that follows a journalist who uncovers a desperate murder plot and must find a way to stop the culprit before the next targets, two of his new friends, wind up dead.
“Fenn Cooper is a journalist in trouble,” writes Kalfel. “His boss has given him one last chance to write a riveting story or lose his job. He decides to write about the eccentric people who work at a traveling circus in Ithaca, New York, where silent movies were once made. There he meets Zena, a ‘little person’ fortune teller with uncanny abilities, and her friend Holey John, a Vietnam vet whose side-show act is piercing his flesh for five bucks a pop, as penitence for what he imagines he did in Nam.
“Marvin Brinks, a Hollywood exec for a big-time movie production company, also finds himself in trouble when he stumbles upon a one-hundred-year-old silent movie contract his company inherited. Wording in the contract would trigger an audit, and an audit would expose him for embezzling millions of dollars from the company. When he realizes that several copies of the contract are missing, he hires Leon, a ruthless assassin, to find the contracts and kill any heirs.
Kalfel writes, “As Fenn begins to write his story, he uncovers a connection between the long-forgotten contracts and a series of recent unsolved murders. What’s more, he realizes that Zena and Holey John could be the killer’s next victims. As these players converge in Ithaca, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.”
Kalfel, who identifies as an outsider, says that little people are underrepresented in literature, and he hopes readers will open their hearts to Zena and her adventures. Paper Ghosts is Kalfel’s love letter to the Mystery/Thriller genre—his all-time favorite.
Published by Fulton Books, Jesse Kalfel’s book is an expertly paced thrilling journey that is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats as they follow Fenn on his mission to protect those he loves from the unscrupulous Brinks and his unending greed.
Readers who wish to experience this enthralling work can purchase “Paper Ghosts: A Fenn Cooper Novel” online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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