- Title:
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People Who Eat Darkness
- Written by:
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Richard Lloyd Parry
- Read by:
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Simon Vance
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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11
- Duration:
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13 hours 8 minutes
- Published:
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May 28 2018
- Available Date:
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May 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489441577
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; True Crime
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
Bolinda price
Longlisted The Samuel Johnson Prize / Non-Fiction 2011
A deeply compelling and chilling account of the tragic case of Lucie Blackman.
In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman – tall, blonde and 21 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 10 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.
'Difficult to put down ... impossible to forget.'
Minette Walters
'A skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade.'
The Sunday Times
'Open-minded and sympathetic, despite being driven half mad by the case, Parry ... is the best kind of narrator of a tale that isn't just a murder case but a book that sheds light on Japan, on families, on the media, and on the insidious effects of misogyny,'
The Guardian