Smaller And Smaller CirclesSmaller and Smaller Circles is unique in the Philippine literary scene a Pinoy detective novel, both fast paced and intelligent, with a Jesuit priest who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist as the sleuth. When it won the Carlos Palance Grand Prize for the English Novel in 1999, it proved that fiction can be both "popular" and "literary." Published in 2002 by University of the Philippines Press