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Adrian Monk novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 9
Language
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
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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English
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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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 4
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 15
Language
English
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Description
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.
15) Malibu burning
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what he needs to pull off a daring crime and avenge a fallen friend. As the most devastating firestorms in Los Angeles' history scorch the hills of Malibu, relentless arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his wild card of...
Author
Series
Diagnosis murder volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
19) Gated prey
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles County Sheriff's detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Duncan Pavone, are running a 24-7 sting in a guard-gated enclave of palatial homes in Calabasas. Their luxury McMansion is a honey trap, set to lure in the violent home invaders terrorizing the community. The trap works, leaving three intruders dead, a body count that nearly includes Eve and Duncan. Eve's bosses are eager to declare the case closed, but there are too...
20) Lost hills
Author
Series
Eve Ronin novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"A video of Deputy Eve Ronin's off-duty arrest of an abusive movie star goes viral, turning her into a popular hero at a time when the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is plagued by scandal. The sheriff, desperate for more positive press, makes Eve the youngest female homicide detective in the department's history. Eve ... and her burned-out, soon-to-retire partner are called to the blood-splattered home of a missing single mother and her two...
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