Accidents Happen (from Soho Crime) is a story collection by the leading crime writer in the Philipines. Her fiction is darkest noir, dealing with social in a vivid and very noir manner. Accidents Happen brings together police procedurals, a ghost or horror story, a wistful apocalyptic dystopian nightmare, and other stories from other and blended genres. Batacan's Jesuit forensic scientist from her first novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles makes an appearance, leading an investigation into a mysterious death that ultimately leads to layers and layers of violence against women. IN another story he oversees the investigation of family abuse that leads to horrifying mutilation. The stories are vivid, sometimes darkly comic and always imbued with a humanity that will keep readers involved even in the most difficult of the characters' dark situations.
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