Suspicious Circumstances gathers more than forty interconnected vignettes blending prose and poetry to explore peculiar events, curiosities and the sheer strangeness of everyday life. 
Lee ranges from the decline of India's vultures to imagined conversations with Emily Dickinson, from a Spanish pigeon impersonating a parrot to the clatter of a crushed can in a darkened cinema. The book's second half turns philosophical, mining the small but endless word 'What' for questions of meaning and existence, even nodding to Hamlet. Described by the author as 'weird-essay-vignette', it is a playful, encyclopedic celebration of comedy, oddity and reflection.