Adrian Monk novels
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Adrian Monk novels volume 1
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English
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Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. His assistant Natalie and her daughter are kind enough to welcome him into their home. While Monk attempts to arrange his surroundings just so, something else needs to be put straight. The death of a dog at the local firehouse--on the same night as a fatal house fire--has led Monk into a puzzling mystery.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 2
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English
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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.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 3
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English
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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 is it means he'll be a "scab"--And he doesn't like the sound of that either. But before he knows it, Monk has his badge back, and his own squad to command....
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Adrian Monk novels volume 4
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English
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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.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 5
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English
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Adrian Monk has journeyed into the realm of the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth, where he meets fans just as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Someone in a starship uniform has very publicly gunned down the show's legendary creator, Conrad Stipe. Could a fan be that furious at him for selling out to an exploitative Hollywood producer? Or is there more going on behind the scenes in Stipe's life?
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When Monk's therapist, Dr. Kroger, attends a conference in Germany, Monk hits the skids, reverting to his OCD habits full-time. Desperate, Monk follows his shrink to Germany. That's when he sees the man with six fingers across a crowded town square. Monk knows it could be the man responsible for his wife's death.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 7
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English
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On a a side trip to France, Monk takes a tour through the historic underground world of the Parisian sewers and encounters a catacombs filled with ancient human remains-- and one much more recent skull.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 8
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English
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When obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk is let go after the latest round of budget cuts, he will not stop investigating, even without pay, especially when Captain Leland Stottlemeyer is framed for the murder of another cop.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 9
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English
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Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, the people have made their way to the little down of trouble in California's gold country. some people come to see the Gold Rush Museum. but most come search 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 murder, Monk and his assistent, Natalie, are sent to investigate.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 10
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English
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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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Adrian Monk novels volume 11
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2011.
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English
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Determined to show his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, the outside world, Adrian Monk drugs him with sleeping pills and hits the road in a motor home only to become enmeshed in a murder investigation along the highway.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 12
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English
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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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English
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Everything has been going well for former SFPD lieutenant Randy Disher in Summit, New Jersey, where he lives with Monk's previous assistant, Sharona, and works as the new police chief. Then the city's leadership is arrested for fraudulently inflated salaries, and Disher suddenly finds himself the acting mayor of a town suffering a wave of residential robberies. In desperation, Disher reaches out to the one person he can trust: Adrian Monk.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 14
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2012.
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English
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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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Adrian Monk novels volume 15
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English
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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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Adrian Monk novels volume 16
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English
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"When self-help guru Miranda Bigley jumps to her death in an obvious suicide, Natalie suspects murder and wants to investigate, but Monk brushes her off to solve the murder of a clown despite his fear of clowns. As they begin their independent investigations, they soon learn they need each other's help to figure out whodunit"--
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Adrian Monk novels volume 17
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English
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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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Adrian Monk novels volume 18
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English
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"Monk and Natalie are hired to find a disgruntled employee who came into work and started shooting, killing three coworkers and leaving a female hostage severely wounded. But the more he and Natalie try to track down the assailant, the more he seems to have disappeared from existence altogether"--
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Adrian Monk novels volume 19
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English
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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...