Adrian Monk novels
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Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunagely, his assistant, Natalie and her daughter let him stay with them, but their home is not up to Monk's standards of cleanliness. While he attempts to put things in order, the death of a dog at the firehouse on the same night as a fatal house fire has lead Monk into a puzzling mystery.
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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 Monk's latest investigation. It was bad enough Monk followed her on vacation, and now it looks like the vacation is over. Smooth-talking TV psychic Dylan Swift is...
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Based on the hit TV series!
Monk is horrified when he learns there’s going to be a blue flu in San Francisco. He doesn’t understand what the blue flu is, but it sounds terrible. Stottlemeyer explains that it’s not really a virus. The police force plans 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. ...
Monk is horrified when he learns there’s going to be a blue flu in San Francisco. He doesn’t understand what the blue flu is, but it sounds terrible. Stottlemeyer explains that it’s not really a virus. The police force plans 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. ...
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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 well-ordered life. But his current assistant, Natalie, is not pleased with this turn of events. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few snags in the case against Sharona's husband. And with other murders to investigate, Monk realizes he may be up against...
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At a convention for the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth, Adrian Monk meets fans as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Though he’s not preoccupied with the program, Monk can understand the phenomenon. Who wouldn’t want to live in an imaginary world?
But there may be a killer in the Beyond Earth community: Someone in a starship uniform has gunned down the show’s legendary creator. Could a fan be that furious...
But there may be a killer in the Beyond Earth community: Someone in a starship uniform has gunned down the show’s legendary creator. Could a fan be that furious...
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Adrian Monk novels volume 6
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Adrian Monk is on a roll?solving murders as fast as they come, and not counting his Wheat Chex until they?re in the bowl. But when his therapist, Dr. Kroger, leaves for Germany, Monk can?t tie his shoes, forgets how to swallow, and loses track of his blinking. Desperate, he follows Dr. Kroger to Germany where he sees a man with six fingers. The man responsible for his wife?s death?or was it just his imagination? Now Monk has to deal with his phobias...
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Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, people have made their way to the little town of Trouble in California's gold country. Some people come to see the Gold Rush Museum. But most come searching for the booty that the train robbers supposedly dumped off the Golden Rail Express in the botched heist. When the museum watchman a retired SFPD cop, is murdered, Monk and his assistant Natalie are sent to investigate.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 10
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Monk's been swindled out of his savings but now it's payback time, in the latest original mystery featuring everyone's favorite OCD detective. 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 of orchestrating...
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Now that his job is secure and his wife's murder has been solved, Adrian Monk is feeling satisfied. It's a feeling he would like his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, to experience too. Monk doctors Ambrose's birthday cake with sleeping pills and when Ambrose awakes he's in a motorhome with Monk. A killer is about to turn their road trip into a highway to hell.
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Natalie Teeger has picked up a few detective skills during her years as Adrian Monk's loyal assistant, and she's eager to use them. But that's not easy when you work with a deductive genius. Then a man with no identity is found dead of natural causes, and neither Monk nor the police see any reason to get involved. It helps that Monk is distracted by a series of brutal murders that seem to be tied to a worthless secondhand couch.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 13
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Monk and Natalie arrive in Summit, New Jersey when new police chief and acting mayor, their old friend Randy Disher summons him to help solve a wave of residential robberies.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 14
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Adrian Monk and Natalie return to San Francisco after an extended assignment in New Jersey to discover a dead woman in their bed with marked bills under the mattress.
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Discovering that a recent string of accidental deaths and suicides are actually murders, Adrian Monk begins to doubt his detective skills when his chief suspect is killed, a situation that is complicated by his arch nemesis Dale the Whale's escape from prison.
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Natalie is taking a break from studying for her PI license-the last step to becoming Monk's full partner. She sneaks off to Half Moon Bay for a retreat run by Miranda Bigley, leader of the Best Possible Me self-help program, but her plans for a relaxing weekend are disrupted when Monk tracks her down to rescue her from the “cult." Their argument is cut short when Miranda, in full view of everyone, calmly walks to the edge of a cliff and jumps. Even...
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"Of all the things that make Adrian Monk uneasy, change ranks high on the list. So when Natalie completes her P.I. license--and technically becomes Monk's boss--it's not easy for him to accept. Nor can he accept Natalie attending a business seminar at sea without him, even if it means spending a week with her on a cruise ship. Between choppy waters and obnoxious kids, Monk finds himself in a perfect storm of anxiety. Luckily, Mariah, the cruise director,...
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After failing to win back his girlfriend, Ellen, in Summit, New Jersey, Monk returns to San Francisco, where he is surprised to find that another relationship has taken a new turn. Natalie decided to make things official by setting up an office for Monk and Teeger, Consulting Detectives. With Monk's typical response to change of any kind, they have more than a few wrinkles to iron out of their new routine. But when Lieutenant Amy Devlin comes to them...
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"Monk and Natalie have finally settled into a new office routine. Now they just need to work things out with their neighbors--a print shop run by hippies whose music leaks through the walls, driving Monk nuts. But the detectives soon have a more serious conflict to deal with: Captain Stottlemeyer's new lieutenant, A.J. Cartledge--a man of limited skills whom Monk finds insufferable. Even the presence of Lieutenant Cartledge won't keep Monk and Natalie...