People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

Lucie Blackman--tall, blond, 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.

Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, covered Lucie's disappearance and followed the massive search for her, the long investigation, and the even longer trial. Over ten years, he earned the trust of her family and friends, won unique access to the Japanese detectives and Japan's convoluted legal system, and delved deep into the mind of the man accused of the crime, Joji Obara, described by the judge as unprecedented and extremely evil.

The result is a book at once thrilling and revelatory, In Cold Blood for our times (Chris Cleave, author of Incendiary and Little Bee).

The People Who Eat Darkness is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012

Author: Richard Lloyd Parry
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 05/22/2012
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 7.54h x 5.08w x 1.24d
ISBN: 9780374230593
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/05/2012 pg. 58
Library Journal 04/01/2012 pg. 87
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2012
New York Times Book Review 06/10/2012 pg. 10
New York Times Book Review 06/17/2012 pg. 24
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 22
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2012 pg. 26
Entertainment Weekly 12/28/2012 pg. 105
BookPage 06/01/2012

About the Author

Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia editor and Tokyo bureau chief of The Times (London) and the author of In the Time of Madness.