“Batacan has turned our attention to the shady underbelly of Metro Manila, where the sun only helps increase the stench of trash.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
Setting: Manila, Philippines
Number of Crimes (Titles in Series): 1
Last Seen (Most recent title): Smaller and Smaller Circles
Description: Hailed as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles tells the heartbreaking story of two Catholic priests on the hunt for a serial killer in the notorious Payatas dump city of northern Manila.
F.H. Batacan is a Filipino journalist, musician, and crime fiction writer currently based in Singapore. After ten years of working in the Philippine intelligence community, she turned to broadcast journalism. Smaller and Smaller Circles, her first novel, won the Philippine National Book Award.
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