Angus Brownfield: 29 books

A jealous mobster approaches a hitman—regarded as the best in his line of work—to eliminate a rival for his lady love’s affections. The project violates several of the hitman’s self-imposed rules, but when he declines, the mobster showers him with an irresistible increase in his usual fee....

Quincy happens upon Annie at a party he was reluctant to attend. His reluctance turns to eagerness when he discovers Annie plays all the tunes he ever wanted to sing. The girl of his dreams, or is this just too good to be true?

This is the third book of The Libertine trilogy. A mature Robert Gattling is unprepared for his mate of 26 years, Mardi Johnson, dying before he does. Just apprised of her decision to stop treatment for cancer, he is assailed by a woman he has been only vaguely aware of: Tan Xiaoqing, “Little Blue,”...

Sophie Larkin, an elderly woman living alone, receives a computer as a gift from her youngest son and internet service from the rest of the family. In time she goes from fearing the system to mastering it. And finally she becomes so dependent on it that it consumes her life.

Josh, longing for the freedom of his rowdy hotrodding days, takes the ultimate muscle car for a joy ride. He drives it off a cliff but miraculously survives, rescued by Debra, a girl too young to drive but not too young to appreciate a cool guy like Josh. While he frets about what the police, the...

Dementia or a severe case of loneliness? A single, middle-aged woman with a vivid imagination discovers her electric heater talks to her. Does she succumb to madness?

Following "Five Winter Haiku" and "Five Spring Haiku," summer gets its due with an extra verse in honor of daylight savings time.

This completes the cycle of haiku-like poems begun last winter with Winter Haiku.

In a bar, a down-and-outer relates a tale from his former life in order to win the sympathy of another patron, who plies him with drinks. The arc of his story aims downward, until the other patron, thoroughly depressed, leaves money for the down-and-outer as he leaves the bar. Afterwards, the narrator, the bartender and the down-and-outer frankly analyze the effects of his tale.

Timing. Bad timing. Married too young, married before all the possibilities can be explored, Jack and Carol Bishop part ways but after the raw wounds heal become friends. Meanwhile, Jack maintains a perpetual letch for Lorna, Carol’s bridesmaid. Years later he discovers she always felt the same...

A tour group of US housewives is stranded in Mexico City by a revolution erupting north of the border. Rather than be confined to a refugee camp, they accept an offer from the mysterious Big Julie to set them up in a bordello. Big Julie will be their Madam; their customers will be expatriates from...

Mustapha is young and unmarried. He works diligently, preparing and selling hummus from a stall in the medina. One day Annisa, a newcomer to Meknes, offers him a proposition: marry her and she will share with him her secret recipe for outstanding hummus. She is nearly old enough to be his mother and...

Quentin Davies, a boyish lawyer, is considered by some of his fellow citizens in Tombstone to be a lovable pain in the neck. Others find him simply a pain in the neck. He defends Mexicans and Indians, and his detractors fear he will put foolish ideas about rights in the heads of these nuisances. One...

Bread to the Wise is Book I of The Libertine trilogy. In 1964 Robert Gattling is an assistant vice-president at a prestigious university, a wunderkind. By 1972 he’s a janitor. Bad things end a life-long lucky streak. He begins recovering his mojo when a mentor, Jake Pritchett, urges him to woo beautiful,...