Death Note, Vol. 6

Light Yagami is a top student with excellent prospects and no interest in any of it. His boredom ends when he finds the Death Note, a notebook left behind by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in it dies. Light sets out to rid the world of evil. Criminals start dying in numbers that bring in the legendary detective L.

This is volume six of the manga series. The task force has gathered a good deal of evidence linking the seven Yotsuba members to the newest Kira. Yet Light, L and the rest of the team still cannot tell which of the seven actually holds the Death Note.

With no progress to show, L brings Misa in to infiltrate the group. Her task is to pass along information designed to draw Kira into the open. The Shinigami Rem, however, tells Misa who the Kiras really are. That knowledge leaves her willing to do anything to help Light. What that costs L is the open question.

The book is a supernatural crime thriller built on a duel of wits between a killer and the detective hunting him. The tension comes from schemes, counter-schemes and what each side knows or does not know about the other.