Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants (Mr. Monk Series #4)

by Lee Goldberg

Overview

Obsessive.
Compulsive.
Detective.

The husband of Monk's former assistant, Sharona, has been arrested for murder. Now back in San Francisco, she's ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life-much to the chagrin of his current assistant, Natalie. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband, and may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451222800
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/02/2008
Series:	Monk , #4
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	337,865
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lee Goldberg has written episodes for the Monk television series, as well as many other programs. He is a two-time Edgar Award nominee and the author of the acclaimed Diagnosis Murder novels, based on the TV series for which he was a writer and executive producer.

Editorial Reviews

Monk must mediate between his former and current assistants as well as trail a killer in the fourth spin-off of the TV show and the first published in hardcover. Goldberg, the Edgar Award-nominated Monk screenwriter, lives in Los Angeles. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Obsessive-compulsive TV detective Adrian Monk gets double-teamed by past and present assistants into investigating a murder the LAPD think they've solved. Before single mom Natalie Teeger took on the job of shielding Monk from the germ-laden, disorderly world around him, the neurotic crime-solver relied on his former nurse, Sharona Fleming, till she left him hoping to reunite with her ex-husband Trevor. Now Trevor's in jail in L.A., charged with bashing his employer Ellen Cole with a lamp and stealing her jewelry, and Sharona's back in San Francisco angling for her old position. Once Natalie decides that her only hope of job security is for Trevor to ride off into the sunset with Sharona, the two assistants bundle Monk off to meet with Lt. Sam Dozier, who investigated for the LAPD. Although hampered by the gas mask he wears to survive L.A.'s smog and the attitude he cops when Dozier introduces him to cocky mystery writer Ian Ludlow, Monk soon decides that the case of the lesbian Cole, her lover Sally Jenkins and her lover's lover, sperm donor Christian Bayliss, isn't as simple as Dozier assumes. Still, it takes a second murder, a break-in at a local firehouse and some fancy orthodontics before Monk triumphs. TV veteran Goldberg (Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, 2007, etc.) enlightens viewers about the shift from sassy brunette assistant to perky blonde, but leaves plenty of other loose ends.

Kirkus Reviews