Synopses & Reviews
An all-new original mystery starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place....
It may be a foggy San Francisco summer, but for Adrian Monk the future is looking bright. Natalie is off working as a cop in Summit, his brother Ambrose and Yuki are a week away from their wedding, Monk has a new assistant—Natalie’s daughter Julie—and even a girlfriend, Ellen Morse.
All this change doesn’t keep Monk from work, though. He’s investigating a string of accidental deaths and suicides that he quickly determines are actually murders. But when the man Monk pegs for the murder is killed, Monk is forced to face the fact that, for the first time, he might actually be wrong. Have stability, domesticity, and happiness robbed Monk of his special skills? Has Monk lost his mojo?
Meanwhile, Monk’s imprisoned arch nemesis, the morbidly obese criminal mastermind Dale the Whale, is being transferred from prison to San Francisco General Hospital for an operation. But when Dale escapes and all signs point to Captain Stottlemeyer as his accomplice, Monk will have to reboot his detective skills to clear the captain’s name—and prove that he’s still the one and only Monk.
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Praise for the Monk novels
“A highly entertaining series....I get a big kick out of the Monk novels.”—Mystery Scene
“Conrad aptly continues to craft these quirky novelizations . . . always funny and entertaining.”—Kings River Life Magazine
“Whats left to say about [the] Monk books? You already know theyre 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
In the newest novel in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher must diagnose a killer with a taste for bad medicine
Jessicas latest book tour brings her to Tampa, Florida, where she meets up with an old friend, Cabot Coves Dr. Seth Hazlitt. Seth is in town visiting Alvaro Vasquez, a renowned physician who is developing a potentially groundbreaking cure for Alzheimers disease. If hes successful, his American backers stand to make millions. But theres a growing fear that the drug may fall into the wrong hands.
Jessica attends a party at Vasquezs lavish home, but the celebration ends abruptly when Vasquez seems to be struck by lightning. Jessica and Seth do some digging into the physicians checkered past and learn that his death was no accident. As they work together to find a cure for the common killer, they become enmeshed in international intrigue involving the local police, the FBI, and the CIAand begin to wonder whether theyll ever see Cabot Cove again.
Synopsis
Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when somethings out of place....
Monk and Natalie have finally settled into a new office routinebut the detectives soon have another problem to deal with: Captain Stottlemeyers new lieutenant, A. J. Thurmana man of limited skills whom Monk finds insufferable.
Despite Thurmans presence, Monk and Natalie attend 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.
When Captain Stottlemeyer shows the same symptoms the judge had shown, Monk detects the work of a diabolical killer who wants both men dead. With his friend in danger and an enemy close, Monk will have to put his reservations aside to crack the case in time.
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. Hy's new series,
Amy's Travel Mysteries, will debut in February 2015, with the publication of
Toured to Death.