NAL Hardcover
February 2013
On Sale: December 31, 2012
288 pages ISBN: 0451239156 EAN: 9780451239150 Kindle: B0099CGOKK Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.