F.H. Batacan was born in Manila and graduated from the University of the Philippines with a BA in communications and an MA in art history. After ten years of working in the Philippine intelligence community, she turned to broadcast journalism. Smaller and Smaller Circles is her first novel.
Winner of the Philippine National Book Award and considered the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles follows two Catholic priests on the hunt for a brutal serial killer in Manila’s notorious Payatas dumpsite slum. When the mutilated bodies of young boys begin to appear in the Payatas dumpsite, two Jesuit priests take the […]