The Earthquake Bird

A haunting, psychological crime novel, The Earthquake Bird is a debut which has caused an international sensation pre-publication. “Early this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken up by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggets that there was a conneciton – that somehow the fault lines in my life came crashing together in a form of a couple of policemen – 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 this chilling 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. A novel imbued with the chill of The Wasp Factory and the shock of The Sculptress, this is the debut of a major new talent.

Author Biography

Susanna Jones has worked as a translator in Tokyo for several years. This is her first novel and she is currently working on a second. She now lives in Brighton and visits Japan regularly.