Death Note, Vol. 5

Light Yagami, a top student bored by his easy future, once found a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami. Any human whose name is written in the Death Note dies. Light used it to kill criminals, and the detective L was sent to hunt the killer known as Kira.

In this fifth volume, Light has spent a week confined, with the death god Ryuk as his only company. He is ready to surrender the notebook and every memory of it. With his past wiped from his mind, he believes he is innocent.

L does not share that belief. He wants Light locked away for good, and he points to one fact: the killings stopped as soon as Light was imprisoned.

Then a new run of Kira crimes strikes Japan. Someone else holds a Death Note, and the victims are chosen for profit rather than to improve the world. Kira's killings have moved into the business world.

This is a volume of a continuing manga series, a supernatural crime thriller built on a duel of wits between a killer and a detective. It picks up where imprisonment and lost memory leave the contest, and it shifts the tone toward corporate murder.