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Reviewed on May 1, 2015 | Fiction
This novel, considered by many to be the first Filipino crime novel, follows two priests as they investigate a series of killings. Father Saenz is a forensic scientist and his colleague Father Lucero is a psychologist. They have been asked by the head of the national police to examine the bodies of several young boys found in one of Manila's enormous garbage dumps. The priests discover the boys were trash pickers, and their deaths had gone unnoticed and unconnected through a combinatio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


