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    Mr. Monk Goes to Germany

    By Lee Goldberg

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    Adrian Monk is on a roll?solving murders as fast as they come, and not counting his Wheat Chex until they?re in the bowl. But when his therapist, Dr. Kroger, leaves for Germany, Monk can?t tie his shoes, forgets how to swallow, and loses track of his blinking. Desperate, he follows Dr. Kroger to Germany where he sees a man with six fingers. The man responsible for his wife?s death?or was it just his imagination? Now Monk has to deal with his phobias and the unfriendly polizei to find his man.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Group
    Release dateJul 1, 2008
    ISBN9781440633614
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    Mr. Monk Goes to Germany
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    Lee Goldberg

    Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Lost Hills, the Ian Ludlow trilogy (True Fiction, Killer Thriller and Fake Truth), fifteen Monk mysteries, and five internationally bestselling Fox & O'Hare books (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, and The Pursuit) co-written with Janet Evanovich. He has also written and/or produced many TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk, and is the co-creator of the hit Hallmark movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing, and production of episodic television series. He is also co-founder of the publishing company Brash Books (www.brash-books.com) You can find more information about Lee and his work at www.leegoldberg.com

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    • 3/5
      Someone murdered Sparky, the Firehouse Dog and Monk is on the trail of the murderer. Along the way, the deaths of elderly Esther Stoval and a homeless man play into the story. As readers will expect, Monk, his OCD foibles firmly intact, works his way through the twist and turns to identify the murderer . . . or murderers. Fans of the television series will find much to appreciate here in this hilarious, quick read tale.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis/blurb.....Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunately, his assistant Natalie and her daughter are kind enough to welcome him into their home. Unfortunately, their home is not quite up to Monk's standards of cleanliness and order.But 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. And much to his horror, he's going to have to dig through a lot of dirt to find the answer.------------My take......Well I enjoyed the TV series back in the day and I've previously enjoyed some of Lee Goldberg's books, especially the collaborations with Janet Evanovich, so the likelihood was that I was going to enjoy this. Correct.A bit of a trip down memory lane then as Goldberg, a writer on the TV show captures Mr. Monk and his OCD, his quirks and obsessions and foibles perfectly.Our mystery centres around a murdered Firehouse dog, which expands into the homicide of an old women in a house fire. Monk explains early on who did it and why - the culprit is the same in both cases. The rest of the book is spent trying to prove it, with the cocky killer further covering his tracks as we go.Best book ever? No, but I did enjoy time in the company of Monk, his assistant Natalie (our narrator), her daughter and the couple of cops - Leland Stottlemeyer and Randy Disher - they work closely with. No real laugh out loud funny moments a la Carl Hiaasen, but plenty of wry wit and smiles.A decent mystery, enjoyable characters, no break-neck pace, a sedentary unwinding of events and an eventual resolution to the tale, with a further twist regarding a murderer somewhat closer to home. This one is less action driven and violent than my usual reading, which made for a decent change.There's enough time here to allow Natalie to go dating and pursue a romance. We see the bonds of friendship between Monk, Natalie and the two cops and also get to glimpse Monk's unresolved pain. It's the one case he has never been able to solve - the murder of his late wife.I have some more of Goldberg's Mr. Monk books on the pile. I won't be picking another one up immediately, but I'll get back to them one day.4 from 5Lee Goldberg's McGrave has been enjoyed before.Read - August, 2019Published - 2006Page count - 304Source - owned copyFormat - paperbackhttps://col2910.blogspot.com/2019/08/lee-goldberg-mr-monk-goes-to-firehouse.html
    • 4/5
      Monk's place is being fumigated so he ends up staying with Natalie and Julie. Naturally, the bodies start piling up and Monk is up to his kidneys in pregnant show dogs,, arsonists, dentures, and murderous jilted wives.
    • 5/5
      Capturing the spirit and the flavour of the television series to perfection, the use of Natalie as a narrator affords a new dimension to Monk and his world. The mystery at the heart of this novel is ingenious but I suspect that its appeal depends upon familiarity with the shows.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book! It's awesome to be able to get fresh doses of Monk. I really missed the TV series and the characters I had become quite attached to. Now I get to have new mysteries to solve with them and many, many laughs. I am looking forward to reading more of this series.
    • 2/5
      I listened to this book on Audible and it was very well done as far as that goes. But when listening one can't gloss over details and while the basic mystery was interesting, more that 3/4 of the book dealt with Monk's peculiarities. I liked the TV series better.
    • 3/5
      I loved the Monk TV series so I decided to try the book. It was just as funny and heartfelt as the TV series. The audio narrator, Laura Hicks, did an excellent job of capturing Natalie's essence from the TV series. There were a few major discrepancies (such as Monk holding a glass of milk, as if!), but the overall story was true enough that I could overlook that. I'll definitely read more.
    • 4/5
      I loved this show, AND this book. In my mind Tony Shaloub was doing and saying all those funny things. I almost remember the story line, and think it may have been an episode. However, I don't recall the way Monk stopped the car at the end,. That was the funniest thing I have read in a long, long, time.
    • 2/5
      Natalie's daughter, Julie, asks Monk to find out who killed the firehouse dog. Funny, laugh out loud read because of all Monk's phobias.
    • 3/5
      A very accurate and enjoyable novelization of characters from a tv series.
    • 5/5
      Contains just as much mystery and comedy as the TV show, I loved it. :)
    • 4/5
      The first of the novelized "Monk" books, based on one of my favorite TV series, told from the perspective of Natalie Teeger. The murder mystery itself is fairly typical for the series (this is a good thing): Natalie's 12-year-old daughter Julie asks Monk to find the murderer of a firehouse dalmation she has come to know and love. This eventually becomes entangled with another murder Monk has been brought in on. As always, the best elements of the book consist of Monk's interactions with those around him: He moves in with Natalie when his apartment is being fumigated. Comedic hijinks ensue. Natalie starts dating a sensitive and hunky firefighter, and Monk is surprisingly intuitive and supportive. And Julie develops a growing respect and affection for Monk, which is clearly returned. A very nice beginning to a series I have much enjoyed.
    • 5/5
      A firehouse dog is murdered on the same night an accidental fire takes an elderly woman’s life. Anyone else would think it’s a coincidence, but famed obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk is quick to note that the police have two murders on their hands. This book was the first in a series of TV tie-ins to USA network’s detective show Monk. For fans of the show, it’s great – like coming back to old friends – as the book retains the characters and feel of the show. Particularly, all of Monk's tics are intact, including things like his infamous phrase, "You'll thank me later." It’s actually a rather interesting reading experience as the author does not need to spend a lot of time describing the characters in vivid detail yet the reader who’s seen the show can easily visualize exactly the expressions on each character’s face at any given moment. The book is narrated first person by Monk’s assistant Natalie, which is a little odd because the show certainly wasn't that way. (Indeed, Monk is often seen on the show in situations without Natalie, e.g., his therapist's office.) Nevertheless, it works okay, although we end up seeing a lot more of Natalie’s personal life, such as the dates she goes on or how she finds a babysitter for her daughter Julie, as well as being privy to her inner thoughts, such as her squeamishness at crime scenes, that we don’t usually get to know on the show.Like with most episodes of Monk, about half way through the book, Monk has already solved the main mystery and is simply looking for the evidence to nail the suspect. Still, the reader is compelled to keep turning pages to see if Monk can outwit a murderer who’s thought of everything as well as to see how Monk is coping with his everyday trials of being an extremely obsessive-compulsive germaphobe, further compounded in this particular story because Monk has temporarily moved in with Natalie and Julie while his apartment building is being fumigated. At the time the was written, the show was still on air, and the book’s plot was actually later made into an TV episode, so there's a little bit of déjà-vu involved. However, there were significant departures between the book and the episode and, combining that with my memory of the particular episode being somewhat lacking, there were no actual spoilers for me.
    • 4/5
      In this first book based on the TV series Monk, Mr. Monk takes on a case for a very important client – Julie Teeger, the daughter of Monk's assistant, Natalie. Julie is heartbroken after she learns about the murder of the fire department's dog, who made regular visits to Julie's school. Why would someone want to kill a dog? Monk may be the only person obsessive enough to find out.Monk is one of my favorite television series. Although I still enjoy watching reruns, I miss having new episodes to watch. The book series offers an opportunity to share new adventures with the characters I love so much. The book is narrated from Natalie's perspective. Next to Monk, Natalie is my favorite character, so this suits me just fine. I wish that Traylor Howard, the TV Natalie, could have narrated the audio version so that Natalie's voice would sound like it should. I think if I had read rather than listened to the book, I would have heard Traylor Howard's voice in my head.The plot in this book seemed both familiar and unfamiliar. I remembered a TV episode involving a firehouse, but the plot was different. Apparently the book was adapted as an episode in the television series. The book and the TV episode are different enough that neither version will be a spoiler for the other one.