People Who Eat Darkness: Murder, Grief and a Journey into Japan’s Shadows

by Richard Lloyd Parry
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A deeply compelling and chilling journey into the dark side of Japan, centred on the tragic case of Lucie Blackman

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In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave.

Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? What did her work, as a 'hostess' in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve? And could Lucie's fate be linked to the disappearance of another girl some ten years earlier?

Over the course of a decade, Richard Lloyd Parry has travelled to four continents to interview those caught up in the story and been given unprecedented access to Lucie's bitterly divided family to reveal the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate.

Editorial Reviews

"An extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book...very, very moving." - David Peace

"An extraordinary book, passionately and meticulously told... I read it with my breath held and found I couldn't relax, think or get on with my life until I'd finished it." - Julie Myerson

"This is In Cold Blood for our times... Everyone who has ever loved someone and held that life dear should read this stunning book, and shiver." - Chris Cleave

"A skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade" - Sunday Times

"Rich in intelligence and insight... Parry is the best kind of narrator." - Blake Morrison, Guardian

"This is an extraordinary book which stands as far above the 'true crime' label as Paradise Lost does above the category 'verse'... No avenue is left unexplored, no thought is too oblique to be uttered, no psychological puzzle too disturbing to be investigated." - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

"A skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade" - Sunday Times Culture

"A horrible tale, meticulously told" - Brenda Maddox, The Sunday Times

"Richard Lloyd Parry has produced a work not only of page-turning intensity but also of touching sensitivity and deep insight. That he could have created something almost noble from such base material is a minor miracle of literary alchemy. The book is brilliantly written" - David Pilling, Financial Times

"Difficult to put down... impossible to forget" - Minette Walters

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