Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, Australian dowsers and Lucie's desperate, but bitterly divided, parents. As the case unfolded, it drew the attention of prime ministers and sado-masochists, ambassadors and con-men, and reporters from across the world. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult, or snatched by human traffickers? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet? And what did her work, as a 'hostess' in the notorious Roppongi district of Tokyo, really involve? Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, has followed the case since Lucie's disappearance.
"People Who Eat Darkness""is an extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book. The account of the crime, the investigation and the trial -- particularly in its knowledge and understanding of the Japan in which this tragedy took place -- is both insightful and gripping; the attempt to understand Obara is fascinating but never ghoulish; and finally, and most of all, the compassion for Lucie Blackman and her family is very, very moving."
--David Peace
Title: People who eat darkness
Subtitle: murder, grief and a journey into Japan's shadows
Contributors:
By (author)
Richard Parry
ISBN 13: 9780099502555
ISBN 10: 0099502550
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Vintage
Publication Date: 1/04/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
True crime
NBS Classification: True Crime
Dewey Classification:
364.15230952135
(DC23)
;
364.1523092
(DC22)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Thickness: 30mm
Weight: 368g