There\'s a serial killer on the loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast.
Despite his peculiar working habits - he\'s never shown his face in public, for example - he\'s the most decorated detective in the world and has never tackled a cased he.
Onto the scene comes L, the mysterious super-sleuth.
Each of these clues, it seems, is an indecipherable roadmap to the next murder.
For some reason the killer has been leaving a string of maddeningly arcane clues at each crime scene.
There\'s a serial killer on the loose in Los Angeles and the local authorities need help fast