Synopses & Reviews
An all-new story starring Adrian Monk by Edgar® Awardnominated Monk screenwriter and coexecutive producer Hy Conrad.
Its compulsive, page-turning fun.
Monk and Natalie have finally settled into a new office routine. Now they just need to work things out with their neighborsa 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 Stottlemeyers new lieutenant, A.J. Cartledgea man of limited skills whom Monk finds insufferable.
Even the presence of Lieutenant Cartledge wont keep Monk and Natalie from attending the funeral of Judge Oberlin, and its a good thing. In typical fashion, Monk examines the body in the casketand finds evidence of poison. The judge was murdered.
While there are no traces of the poison at the judges house, Monk detects that there had been an intruder. The next rainy day, when Captain Stottlemeyer begins to show the same symptoms, Monk deduces that theres a diabolical killer at work, someone who wanted both the judge and the captain dead. Monk and Natalie turn to the captains ex-lieutenant in Summit, New Jersey for help, but even that might not be enough to solve this crime. With his friend in danger and an enemy close, Monk will have to put his reservations aside to crack the case in time.
Review
“Fans of the series should rejoice! Adrian Monk couldnt be in better hands. Thank you, Hy Conrad.”—Andy Breckman, Cocreator and Executive Producer of the USA Network Television Series
Monk
Praise for the Monk Mysteries
“Entertaining and ruefully funny...stars one of televisions best-loved characters.”—Honolulu Star-Bulletin
“A highly entertaining series....I get a big kick out of the Monk novels.”—Mystery Scene
“Hilariously funny and devilishly clever...an impossible-crime lovers delight.”—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
“You say you dont read tie-in novels? You should give the Monk books a try and find out what youve been missing.”—Bill Crider, author of Murder in the Air
“Truth is, youd be hard-pressed to find another recent work that provides so many hip and humorous moments, along with its believable plot twists. Monk series fans—and that means both the TV show and these novels—have another winner here to enjoy.”—Bookgasm
“Some of the very best TV tie-in books being published today. More than that, theyre some of the very best mystery novels being published today, period.”—Rough Edges
Synopsis
Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk--based on the hit USA Network series Monk, starring Tony Shaloub--the brilliant investigator who always knows when somethings out of place....
Failing to win back his girlfriend in New Jersey, Monk returns to San Francisco where Natalie has set up an office for Monk and Teeger, Consulting Detectives. Its time to stop bickering and get to work when Lieutenant Amy Devlin comes to them for help.
A disgruntled employee came into work and started shooting, killing three coworkers and leaving a female hostage severely wounded. After spotting the shooter through office windows, the police lost himleaving Lieutenant Devlin with a real mess on her hands.
Visiting the bedridden survivor, Monk finds her to be helpful, cooperative
and quite charming as well. But the more he and Natalie try to track down the assailant, the more he seems to have disappeared from existence altogether....
About the Author
Hy Conrad was one of the original writers on the USA Network television series
Monk and stayed with the series for all eight seasons, acting as coexecutive producer for the last two seasons and garnering three Edgar® Award nominations. In addition, Hy was head writer of the webisode series
Little Monk and served as consulting producer and writer on the USA series
White Collar. He is the author of hundreds of short stories, dozens of interactive mysteries, and ten books of solvable whodunits, sold around the world in fourteen languages.