Beyond People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of

Lucie Blackman, tall, blonde, and 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, gained 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 that is both thrilling and revelatory, described as "In Cold Blood for our times." The People Who Eat Darkness is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012.