People Who Eat Darkness

Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the Independent and now for The Times. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman.

"An extraordinary, compulsive and brilliant book...very, very moving" -- David Peace "Difficult to put down... impossible to forget" -- Minette Walters "A skilful, definitive history of one of the most notorious crimes of the past decade" Sunday Times "This is In Cold Blood for our times... Everyone who has ever loved someone and held that life dear should read this stunning book, and shiver" -- Chris Cleave "Open-minded and sympathetic, despite being driven half mad by the case, Parry, former Asia correspondent for the Independent and The Times, 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" -- Blake Morrison Guardian