Books by Susanna Jones

Bogen bag Netflix-filmen Earthquake Bird. Jordskælvsfuglen er en krimi, en kærlighedshistorie og et raffineret psykologisk drama. En ung engelsk kvinde, Lucy, er flygtet til Japan efter - måske i selv-forsvar - at have slået en af sine brødre ihjel. Der har hun bygget sit liv op omkring en lille etværelses lejlighed, en strygekvartet og et job som oversætter, samt indledt et nærmest ordløst, men meget fysisk, forhold til Teiji, en ung japaner, hvis lidenskab er at fotografere. Da Lily ankommer til Tokyo, tvinges Lucy til at tage sig af hende, og hun må se på, mens hendes perfekte, isolerede tilværelse forstyrres af Lily og minder fra fortiden i Yorkshire. Da Lily findes myrdet falder mistanken på Lucy. Under et forhør på politistationen afslører Lucy sin fortid for læseren - en fortid som er foruroligende uklar og samtidig fuldstændig afslørende.

The Earthquake Bird is Susanna Jones's stunning, prize-winning first mystery - now a major motion picture starring Alicia Vikander.Winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the YearWinner of the John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeEarly this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggest that there was a connection. . . for in Tokyo we have a quake like this every month. I am simply relating the sequence of events as it happened. It has been an unusual day and I would hate to forget anything . . . So begins The Earthquake Bird, a haunting novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young, vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader, and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising . . . Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and what exactly prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why is she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last meeting? As Lucy's story unfolds, it emerges that secrets, both past and present, obsess her waking life . . .