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F.H. Batacan

Biography

F.H. Batacan

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 10 years of working in the Philippine intelligence community, she turned to broadcast journalism. SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, her first novel, won the prestigious Philippine National Book Award and is widely regarded as the first Philippine crime novel.

F.H. Batacan

Books by F.H. Batacan

Accidents Happen and Other Stories
by F.H. Batacan - Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense, Thriller

In ACCIDENTS HAPPEN, F.H. Batacan explores the darkest corners of human experience, depicting with pitch-black humor the systems of class and politics that her characters are trapped in and the moments of violence that can shatter their lives. In particular, Batacan shines an unsparing light on the epidemic of violence against women in the Philippines. When a wealthy politician’s 12-year-old son disappears, the family’s driver witnesses the aftermath. A field investigator for the World Health Organization travels the globe giving presentations about a biomedical enzyme that will lead to the extinction of the human race. And Father Augusto Saenz, the Jesuit priest and forensic anthropologist from SMALLER AND SMALLER CIRCLES, returns to investigate the murder of a woman whose secretive life holds the key to her death.