Richard Lloyd Parry

Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and 21 years-old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. This title reveals the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate. It is the story of a young woman who fell prey to unspeakabale evil, and of a loving family torn apart by grief.

The Fate of Lucie Blackman

People who Eat Darkness

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.

Love, Grief and a Journey Into Japan's Shadows

People Who Eat Darkness

Witch

4.5 stars
This book was fantastic. The case of Lucie Blackman is a devastating one and the case of her disappearance was a fascinating one. This was a really great true crime novel. 
I was nervous reading a white man's take on Japanese culture but it was treated with so much respect and understanding.

Andrew Molina

Fascinating mystery, retold well, honoring all parties involved. This doesn’t read as a book taking advantage of someone’s tragedy, but rather a thoroughly-researched offering to those lost in the tragedy, and an in-depth exploration of how darkness ripples and affects us all in different ways, butting up against societal norms and expectations. I contend it could’ve been about a quarter shorter, with a few sections meandering and indulging interesting but not-fully-relevant research and details. These come in the middle, so I didn’t find it too difficult to persist as the beginning built suspense really well.

Definitely worth a read if you have any interest in true crime or cultural differences between Western and Japanese criminal procedure.

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*** Richard Lloyd Parry is the Winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize *** 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.

People who Eat Darkness The Fate of Lucie Blackman

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