: Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants
Author: Lee Goldberg
Another excellent Monk novel, this one classically tongue in cheek about the TV show’s history. On the show, the actress who played Monk’s assistant in the first couple seasons was replaced. In this book, his new assistant meets the former one, and sparks fly. Monk, of course, is so selfish he wants both assistants to cater to his eccentric whims (he’ll pay each only half a salary, of course). But of course there’s a murder involved — several, in fact, and Monk solves the crimes in his inimitable way. It’s well done, though the murderer is quite obvious (I knew the moment the character was introduced), but Monk isn’t about inscrutible mysteries but the fun of Monk using his OCD to figure it out.
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