After an awful time solving murders in Germany, Natalie Teeger blackmails Monk into going to Paris for a few days for vacation. Since this is Monk, dead bodies and murder follow him wherever he goes starting from the plane ride to France. This one actually had me guessing as to who the murderer...
I really liked the mysteries and all the characters here especially Danielle. I had hope she will stay but things did not went my way. Nevertheless, she was an amazing character, if only minor. She had degree in psychology so that made her understanding of Monk's OCD. She was an efficient assista...
Leland Stottlemeyer is used to obsessive- compulsive genius Adrian Monk getting all the praise and attention. But the police captain is feeling a little hostile after taking a lot of ribbing about his reliance on his star consultant. Is it possible he's used the latest round of budget cuts as an ...
I really enjoyed this! I was upset at the way Captain Stottlemeyer treated Monk for the most part of the book also at the way Monk seemed to take Natalie for granted. While Stottlemeyer refused to hire Monk, he had no qualm in using Monk OCD-ness in helping him to solve the cases for free. I coul...
In the midst of a financial crisis, the SFPD fires Adrian Monk as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings for a while. Then Natalie learns that Monk invested his money some time ago with Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investments, who's just been arrested on charges o...
With his job secure and his wife's murder finally solved, Adrian Monk is feeling strangely...satisfied. He'd like his agoraphobic brother Ambrose to feel the same way, so Monk puts a secret ingredient in Ambrose's birthday cake: sleeping pills. When Ambrose wakes up, he's in a motorhome on the op...
One nice thing about reading the Monk mystery novels is that they are written by the people who wrote the television shows, so they not only have a great sense of character and ear for dialogue but they are able to recreate the "feel" of the beloved series. In this tale, narrated by Adian Monk's...
It's good to see Natalie finally doing detective work and ending the loathe between Lt. Devlin and her. The story is very exciting, and keeps readers turning the pages. However,it contains too few cases.I like this book very much because each case is complex and well-planned. You will have a stro...
Fans of the conclusion of the show who are expecting the book to pick up where the series left off will be a little disappointed with this. Monk's compulsions have not improved, his relationship with Molly is not furthered. But, if you're looking for the Monk you know and love, this book has it. ...
Apparently no one gets married anymore they just move-in together. I'm still kind of annoyed the Yuki thing is such a...non thing.Ok, so I do like the change of scenery. Kind of fun to see Randy try to handle responsibility. Poop is a funny concept, and I like the idea of Monk getting a love i...
It is okay, although I give one extra star for Randy and Sharona (she is quite out of character though). I'm still not sure of the new development of Monk and his relationship with Ellen Morse. Maybe this is a good thing, maybe not. Monk does behave like an idiot over the Poop shop deal. As for N...
Matt Cahill is a fairly average guy overcoming his beloved wife’s premature death when tragedy strikes him, as well. Buried in an avalanche and his body not found for three months, Matt wakes up in the morgue. Outwardly, he’s no different, but now Matt can see things no one else can see. He de...
This is the last in the series of Monk books written by Lee Goldberg and it's a fitting end to the characters and situations of the series (even more so than the show finale, I think). Reintroducing Dale the Whale into the final book was a nice way to tie up the book series since he was involved ...
A mystery story filled with funfilled details, I had never heard of the character, in fact now would love to see the video, loved Adrian Monk and his unique way of living life, which would drive those around him nuts, the details are rather funny, but in spite of it all he gets results, and nails...
Monk is horrified when he learns there's going to be a blue flu in San Francisco-until Capt. Stottlemeyer explains that it just means the police plan to call in "sick" until they get a better contract.The good news is the labor dispute will give Monk a chance to get back on the force.The bad news...
Some people think Hawaii is paradise. But Monk knows that danger -- like dirt -- lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a fatal blow from a coconut. The police say it fell from a tree, but Monk suspects otherwise. His assistant, Natalie, isn t exactly thrilled about Mon...
Let me begin by saying that about a year ago, my family and I got into the hit-television show Monk shortly after we signed up for Netflix. What followed was a two month-long blur in which we worked through all eight seasons of the show. By the end of it, we were exhausted, amused, and had grown ...
Fourth in the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place. Now that her ne'er-do-well husband has been arrested for murder, Monk's former assistant, Sharona, is ready to reclaim her place in Monk's extremely ...
When Dr. Mark Sloan wakes up in his own hospital's I.C.U., he doesn't remember how he got there-or anything from the last two years of his life, including a wife he doesn't recognize, and grandkids he never knew existed. He learns that he was run down in the street while investigating a series...
When a young woman falls down a flight of stairs and is left brain dead, her family agrees to donate her organs. Dr. Jesse Travis oversees the grim task, saving several other seriously ill patients. But one of the organ recipients returns to the hospital with a complication no one could have seen...
A new mystery featuring Dr. Mark Sloan. Dr. Mark Sloan saves a would-be suicide victim, but her jump from a building ledge has left her in a coma. Obsessed with learning why she attempted suicide, Sloan stumbles into a manhunt for a cop-killer-who may turn his attention to nosy physicians next.
When Adrian Monk investigates the murder of Conrad Stipe, the legendary creator of the cult hit TV series Beyond Earth, he finally meets people who are even more obsessive-compulsive than he is—science fiction fans. One of the fans could be the killer who, wearing an elephant nose and dressed in ...
Harvey Mapes is a twenty-nine-year-old security guard who spends his nights in a guard shack outside a gated community in Southern California, reading detective novels, watching TVLand reruns, and waiting for his life to finally start . . . which happens when Cyril Parkus, one of the wealthy resi...
Dr. Mark Sloan is startled to discover a dead womandressed as a mermaidwashed up on the beach outside his home. Even more bizarre, the autopsy reveals a digital memory card within a capsule inside the body's stomach. The card contains the report of a forty-three-year-old murder in Los Angelest...
At his neighbor's Malibu beach house, Dr. Mark Sloan discovers the bullet-riddled bodies of an aspiring actress and Rick Kershaw, a Hollywood mega-producer. The police suspect Kershaw's wife. But when Sloan and his son investigate a local mob kingpin's involvement, Mark soon finds himself a prime...
A dream vacation in Hawaii turns into a nightmare for Dr. Mark Sloan and his son, Steve, when a man they've befriended falls victim to a shark attack. But when Mark discovers evidence indicating the victim was murdered prior to becoming shark food, he and Steve comb the beaches to find a differen...
Wednesday Marty’s feet were killing him. He’d been walking on blisters all morning, and it was only getting worse. It was hard enough working his way through rubble, but now slogging through the muck, each step was like pulling his feet out of a bucket of moist chewing gum. Marty and Buck had wor...
So DeWitt hunted down Mark Sloan instead.DeWitt found him in the doctors' lounge, where he was trying to grab another hour or two of sleep before Steve arrived. The deputy had no qualms about disturbing Mark's rest."I hear you talked with Stryker," DeWitt said, pulling up a chair beside the couch...
the man in the Vikings cap screamed at the cheap TV. “Arceneaux was wide open!” The crowd in Ziggy’s bar heartily agreed. Matt, who had no particular opinion on the subject, shouted, “Get some glasses!” He was in Minneapolis, and getting caught up in the excitement of the hometown crowd felt pret...
She blew the rain clouds away with fierce, gale-force winds that blasted through the city, ripping trees out of the ground, tearing off roofs, severing power lines, and smashing in plate-glass windows. People on the street, who were still recovering from five days of pound...
"Oh God, please don't stop!" she shrieked, faking an orgiastic squeal. The mattress creaked underneath her as the man quickened his pace. Business ain't bad today, she thought to herself, hoping she would handle three more guys before quitting time. Her body rocked under h...
Barbette told Dr. Whittington, it worked. I accompanied Dr. Barbette downtown to the county morgue, where I didn't just watch the autopsy; he actually let me assist.I didn't know it then, but it was the first of many autopsies I would help him perform over the years. He took me on as an unofficia...
He didn't really like the bagels in this place much. The only way he could eat them was to smother them with anything that had some flavor, which is why he ordered a bagel that was covered with cheddar cheese to start with. What Bud Flanek liked was the hot, heavy, onionized air that filled the t...
He was thinking about his father.Glenn Wade wasn’t an imposing man, but he had strength. It wasn’t muscle; it was something in his eyes and in his bearing. His skin was dark and lined from a lifetime of living, working, and playing outdoors. He was a man who would’ve looked natural wearing a cowb...
Diane Love did send her mother some money. Every year on her mother's birthday, Diane sent $5,000 in cash in a manila envelope. Wyatt knew this because every year he intercepted the parcel before it was delivered and kept the money.Actually, he intercepted all of her mother's mail before it was d...
The only thing that would have pleased him was greeting an empty courtroom, which would prove that at least one day had gone by without a lawless act being committed that demanded his judgment.But that day was never going to come, and, rather than accept it, he wore a permanent expression of glum...
Monk on Patrol Mr. Monk Arrives in New Jersey We touched down hard in Newark at two a.m. and the jolt awakened Monk, who sat up straight in his seat and gripped his armrests for dear life. “Taking off is the part I hate most,” Monk said. “Then you can relax,” I said, “because we’ve just landed.” ...
Monk Goes to Germany CHAPTER FIFTEEN Mr. Monk Sees a Corpse We’d barely been in Germany for twenty-four hours and we were about to see a dead body. It’s not exactly on my list of things to do when I go someplace new. But the same thing happened when Monk followed me to Hawaii, when we went to a w...
Their chests were heaving, their lungs clawing for air, as their bodies climbed the heights of their passion. Macklin felt the urgency in her hot breaths, in the trembling hands holding his neck. Macklin sat at the bed's edge, his hands on Mordente's sides. She faced him, ...
Heidi Mack was technically the physician handling Mark's case and, as such, she gave her patient a thorough examination, though she'd previously ceded much of her authority and responsibility to Dr. Noble. Mark's injuries weren't serious and Dr. Mack pronounced him completely recovered. She gave ...
Mark Sloan was determined to die and there was nothing he could do about it. He'd brought her into this world over forty years ago and, more than likely, he'd see her out of it, too.Although Mark was Chief of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital, he still acted as Lenore Barber's famil...