NEW RELEASES

SPRING/WINTER 2020

ENCIRCLE MYSTERY

THE QUEEN
OF ALL POISONS

Dr. Lily Robinson is a brilliant physician with an encyclopedic knowledge of all toxins and poisons, and a penchant for stilettos. In an unforeseeable twist in her life, the United States Government appeals to her patriotism–and her knowledge of how to kill without bloodshed, to rid the world of threats to our nation. Emotionally blunted and flawed, she struggles to move between assassin and healer, yet still able to fulfill her competing objectives. Now asked to assassinate a terrorist threatening New York City, she quickly realizes the Russians have already released a deadly toxin in a surprisingly innocuous medium.

ENCIRCLE LITERARY FICTION

OFF
ISLAND

“Lara Tupper’s Off Island is a beautiful accomplishment, unlike any other work of fiction I can recall. The two narratives intertwine in such a way as to both demystify historical celebrity and elevate contemporary plainfolk. The prose is seductive and elegant, the story smart, enlightening, and oh so satisfying.”
– Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once.

ENCIRCLE MYSTERY

FOR BETTER
OR WORSE

John Bekker is finally enjoying life in semi-retirement. His relationship with his daughter is better than ever after moving into their new home, his close friend Oz is on the mend from a recent minor heart attack, and Bekker’s romance with Sheriff Jane Morgan is in full bloom.
Bekker is called back into action when his friend and former partner Police Captain Walt Grimes, on the eve of his retirement, is unexpectedly charged and arrested with extortion and racketeering.

ENCIRCLE MYSTERY

Death of a Guitarist

Thin Edges—a California rock group of the early ’70s who have been divided for more than a decade—has an opportunity to re-enter the spotlight and relive their rockand- roll glory days, but that hope is threatened when their guitarist, Blue Crosby, turns up dead, and Cal Lambert, their lead singer, is the prime suspect. An offer by a movie producer to use the band’s music—written largely by Cal—would bring royalties, renewed interest in their early records, and the possibility of a group revival. However, Crosby, clinging to old grudges, had schemed to upend the windfall for Lambert and the other band members. Now, almost broke and near arrest as the key suspect, Lambert seeks the help of his estranged son to clear his name and protect the producer’s offer.

ENCIRCLE HISTORICAL ADVENTURE THRILLER

I AM CUBA

I Am Cuba is a historical adventure thriller with a splash of romance. This captivating real-life revolution follows a small band of guerrillas, led by Fidel Castro, as they attempt to bring about significant social change by toppling a corrupt dictatorship in1950’s Cuba. The fictional character of Vicente Bolívar is utilized to represent all of Cuba in casting a spotlight on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. The novel begins with Fidel’s botched insurrection, capture, imprisonment, amnesty, and exile. He returns with an invasion of eighty-two men and is annihilated, with only eighteen survivors. Holed up in the rugged environment of the Sierra Maestra, these rebels grow in strength and capture the imagination of Cuba and the world, compelling the dictator, are victorious and change history.

ENCIRCLE MYSTERY

THE
TOWER HILL TERROR

Unorthodox PI James Leipfold and his technophile assistant Maile O’Hara are back with a brand new case. The Tower Hill Terror is on the loose, a serial killer with a grisly M.O., and Maile and Leipfold must work fast to take him down before another body is found. But while the duo are chasing clues on social networking sites and the police are waiting for forensics, the Terror sends a message to the journalists at The Tribune. A message written in blood. Can Leipfold, Maile and Cholmondeley catch the Tower Hill Terror before it’s too late? Or will the Tower Hill Terror claim their final, familiar victim?

ENCIRCLE MYSTERY

ALIENS, DRYWALL,
AND A UNICYCLE

Tom Tibbets, takes a job at a small weekly newspaper in Portage, New Hampshire, and an apartment in the old Cooper Building where the residents form a kaleidoscope of the odd, interesting, and insane.  One believes in aliens, another is a pothead philosopher, while still others play with illegal explosives for fun.  A vegan pacifist lives there, along with nomadic born-again Christians, a schizophrenic unicycle rider, and a mysterious wise man. At first, Tom feels like the only “normal” person in the building.  However, he soon believes that the very people he at first considered unstable and strange have become a lens through which he gets a new look at himself and everything else.

ENCIRCLE POETRY

EXCEPT FOR LOVE

Publication date: June 23, 2019, the one-year anniversary of Donald Hall’s passing.

Editor Cynthia Brackett-Vincent.

Introductory tribute by Wesley McNair, former Poet Laureate of Maine.

Thirty-five New England poets share their poems inspired by literary giant Donald Hall, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and of the United States.

New England Poets Inspired by Donald Hall

ENCIRCLE POETRY

WHERE THE TIME WENT
Poems at Eighty

Think of Clem Schoenebeck as the music man, his poems inviting us to see possibilities of joy in the everyday, be it garden flowers or the Brahms Requiem, a brilliant sunset or the sterling qualities of a friend.——Claire Keyes, Professor Emerita of English, Salem State University, and author of What Diamonds Can Do.

There are poems in Where the Time Went that will linger in your consciousness long after being read…and some will never leave.——Dennis Must, author of several story collections and novels including the forthcoming Brother Carnival.