Angus Brownfield: 29 books

Angels and demons, good and evil, selfless love and selfish lust tug and grate on the inhabitants of Angus Brownfield’s latest novel, An Angel At Satan’s Ball. Ulysses Everard, Angelic Advisor since Homo sapiens began migrating out of Africa, finds his latest ward, country girl Sarafina Birdseye,...

Some of Angus Brownfield’s collection of nineteen short stories are told with tongue in cheek and some acknowledge the regret that comes of learning through sobering experience. One narrator is faintly hysterical, another trying to avoid the rat race that looms in front of him by reliving his hot-rodding...

Till Dimas, San Francisco police detective, attributes his uncanny sense of smell to an Apache ancestor. His partner, Felix (“Dude”) Durand, will never forget the homicide case Till solved in record time relying in large part on his sensitive nose. Closing the case leaves the partners to consult...

Carlos Robertson asks his long-time friend, Fredrick, for help with a problem of the heart. There are two women, one a lover, one a friend, but accidents of time, space and the flesh are obscuring the distinction in his feelings. Fredrick’s advice is on target, but not what Carlos wants to hear.

Pushed to the point of mayhem, mathematical genius Donald MacDonald is booted by a high tech megalith and embarks on a new career: art. He gains a public following chalking large drawings on downtown sidewalks while he embarks on a mission to paint exactly one hundred and fifty-three portraits of...

Billy Kurtz wants to be a writer, but his life is so dull, so juvenile. So he finds a way to eavesdrop on other people’s lives . . . only to discover some folks don’t care to contribute to his education.

Where am I? The question is paramount. In total darkness, at the side of a dirt road, Richard is paying for breaking up an instance of domestic abuse outside an Albuquerque saloon. Attacked by the woman he thought he was rescuing and then by two of her assailant’s friends, he is knocked cold, hogtied...

A young man, Jarvis, is canvassing for the Gallup polling organization when he encounters Howard, a subject who alarms him. The man turns the interview around, asking Jarvis about his most interesting “customers.” Howard swears he knew Jarvis was coming. Howard has a large revolver sitting next...

Conrad and Margot, having driven the length of Mexico from the States with two small children, are crossing the border between Mexico and Guatemala at Christmas time. He has hunting weapons, and permits from all the interveneding countries to carry them into Costa Rica. An incident in Guatemala has...

She’s Got Her Own is about self-discovery, about Lizzie Mae Brown, a woman obsessed with finding the True Mother and True Father of her dreams. In her search she encounters lawyers and bikers, avarice and selflessness, and links that click into place after years of incubating. There’s crime, low...

Perfection of the life, perfection of the work: is it an either/or choice? Must a person forswear one to attain the other? Byeford Pritchett wants both. He wants to live a life free of the creator’s angst while turning out a work of art worthy of the name.For more years than he cares to admit, Bye...

Jacob Gleason, restless youth seeking his destiny, is a moral blank slate when he stumbles upon Abrupt Edge, a Nevada wilderness Shangri La. It’s centerpiece is Carne Viva, a brothel for billionaires seeking sexual enlightenment. Edge Enterprise’s CEO, Isaac Wayman, offers him a job chronicling...

One day master mechanic Rigoberto Calderón incurs the wrath of God. He has long had two wives, one openly, one covertly. God and the good folk of San Martín look the other way. That fateful day he boasts to a gringo motorist whose truck he’s mending that two mates concurrently is superior to the...

Beseeched by a pair of Mexican boys on the Day of the Dead to assist their kin with a broken-down pickup, Californians newly crossed into Mexico are puzzled by the encounter until they learn the true nature of their visitors.