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

The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucie's desperate but bitterly divided parents. 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, followed the case from the beginning. Lucie Blackman - tall, blond, 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. Ultimately he earned the respect of the victim's family and delved deep into the mind and background 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. The following winter, her dismembered remain

Amazing read I'm so very glad to have purchased this book. The quality of the writing is outstanding -- so much so in fact that the text is renewing my interest in true crime narratives. Too often the writing is so relatively journalistic and flat that the only sections of the book that are co. "Painful to read, but well worth the effort" according to Brian K. Miller. I am not a stranger to this case. I was in Japan during the Lucie Blackman episode and I count among my friends the sister of another of Joji Obara's victims. This book was very painful for me to read and I often had to set it aside after only reading a page or two until I could g. An Amateur's Review Reading some of the "bad" reviews, I am confused. I am an amateur reader that watches a lot of trash TV murders. By comparison, I feel this was a most excellent book. I couldn't put it down. Yes, the trial part got a little long, but so was the trial. It seemed to me be a very wel