Light is chafing under L's extreme surveillance but even 64 microphones & cameras hidden in his room aren't enough to stop Light He steps up the game but before the battle of wits can really begin a family emergency distracts him But even though Light isn't using the Death Note right now someone else is! Who's the new ' Kira' in town? ...

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & he's bored out of his mind But all that changes when he finds the Death
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects
- & he's bored out of his mind But all that changes when he finds the Death
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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects & he's bored out of his mind But all that changes when he finds the Death Note a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies & now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Noteto rid the world of evil But when criminals begin dropping dead the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer With L hot on his heels will Light lose sight of his noble goalor his life? After a high-speed chase Light & the taskforce apprehend the newest Kira Light regains his Death Note & his memories & the depths of his cunning are revealed as the plans he carefully put in place before going into confinement are slowly unveiled His masterful manipulation of both humans & Shinigami lead him to the strongest position he's yet enjoyed But the glow of his victory is marred when a new threat appears Can Light withstand a surprise attack on two fronts? ...

There's a serial killer on the loose in Los Angeles & the local authorities need help fast For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene Each of these clues it seems is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder Onto the scene comes L the mysterious super-sleuth Despite his peculiar working habits
- he's never shown his face in public for example
- he's the most decorated detective in the world & has never tackled a cased he hasn't been able to crack But this time he needs help Enlisting the services of an FBI agent named Naomi Misora L starts snooping around the City of Angels It soon becomes apparent that the killing spree is a psychotic riddle designed specifically to engage L in a battle of wits Stuck in the middle between killer & investigator it's up to Misora to navigate both the dead bodies & the egos to solve the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

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The mysterious killer Kira has managed to take another life Baffled by Kira&s ability to seemingly strike anyone anywhere Interpol have called in the legendary detective "L" Now the cat & mouse game begins L must feed Kira specific targets in order to deduce Kira&s location & ultimately his identity Meanwhile Kira continues to enact his supernatural brand of homicidal justice racing toward completing his list & disappearing without a trace Death Note Confrontation is a two-player game in which one player takes on the role of L trying to locate & capture Kira & the other plays as Kira punishing those he sees deserving of the ultimate penalty Each player uses their character&s specified notebook & either as L reveals criminal targets & to systematically locate Kira or as Kira eliminates those targets in order to gain enough victory points Players 2 Ages 16 Playing time 30 minutes ...

In an alternative continuity in the Death Note setting ace detective L's name has been placed in a Death Note He has twenty-three days to bring a terrorist group to justice or they will use a deadly new virus to change the worldby killing off most of humanity ...

The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither She has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilary Magna since she goes out of her way to snoop on people & interfere with their lives On being introduced to her the seasoned reader of detective stories will spot a murder victim in the making Sure enough by the end of chapter one this unpleasant lady has met an extremely unpleasant fate She is found floating in a cesspool having been bludgeoned prior to drowning in the drainage water This is in every way a murky business; realising that they are out of their depth the local police quickly call in the Yard Inspector Thomas Littlejohn George Bellairs' series detective arrives on the train & in casting around for suspects he finds that he is spoiled for choice The amiable vicar supplies him with a map showing the scene of the crime; maps were a popular feature of traditional whodunnits for many years & Bellairs occasionally included them in his books as he does here ...

She couldn't paint to save her life
- so someone's given her a lesson by taking it! Most newcomers don't stay long in remote Lochdubh
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When Fergus Macleod Lochdubh's abusive drunk dustman is put in charge of the local recycling centre & is dubbed the ' Environment Officer' Hamish Macbeth smells trouble Sure enough Fergus imbued with his new powers becomes a bullying tyrant & when his body is found stuffed in a recycling bin no one is sorry
- including his long-suffering family But Macbeth is surprised to find that many of the despicable dustman's victims refuse to talk
- & when violence strikes again the lanky lawman must quickly unearth the culprit among a litter of suspects before the killer makes a clean getaway!

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