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amazing, but read more or less like an episode of Monk and made for an easy beach read : I fully expected to see all of my favorite Monk characters as I know them from the show.
It was distracting to me that none of them came to life in the book as they are in the show, Having said that, the story was good and I did finish the book, I won't read another one though, I love these books, but I did figure it out halfway through There were several mysteries in this single book, so it made for enjoyable food for the mind.
First the television series came to an end and Mr, Monk was gone. Then Lee Goldberg began writing the Monk books and I loved them, Eventually, Mr. Goldberg moved on to other things and Mr, Monk was once again gone, But Hy Conrad took over writing the Monk books, and life was good again, Both men had worked on the television series, and had Monk well in hand, Each of their versions of Monk were slightly different, but both worked for me, I did think Mr. Goldberg's Monk was funnier than Mr, Conrad's. And now This is the last Monk book, unless another author steps up to continue the series, Life looks bleak again. Mr. Conrad has, in a way, tidied up all the characters lives in such a way to allow us to see where they are headed, but also leaves room for another author to put his or her mark on the characters and take them on a different path.
I hope someone does decide to continue the series, I'll miss them if they are gone,

Oh yeahthe book was good, Synopsis Captain Sottlemeyer has a new partner, the son of a very old friend, Problem is, he's not only a bad cop, but he's a jerk, besides, Hy Conrad, I just want to thank you for the great plot lines, Natalie's strong female voice, and your willingness to carry on the monk legacy, My brother and I both enjoyed Mr, Monk and the New Lieutenant but to different degrees and with different experiences, Though we both thought Hy Conrad presented a solid and enjoyable story, my sibling felt that it wasnt at the level of Lee Goldbergs novels about the same character.
I enjoyed it as much or more, Mein Bruder was confident of the perpetrator from the middle of the book forward, and he felt adequate clues were planted, I didnt figure it out till at least threefourths of the way through the story and, even then, I wasnt positive until the penultimate revelation, I knew it wasnt the “red herring” characters, but I kept casting my net further and further off the beaten path,

Both of us agreed that we “heard” Tony Shalhoub throwing off those absurd lines as Monk as we read it through, To me, the most humorous scene with Monklike behavior was in the chapter entitled, “Mr, Monk and Chicken Potpie Night, ” I chuckled and shook my head during the inventory of the peas and the comments on the “Princess and the Pea” fairy tale, There was also a scene that was almost as uncomfortable for me as I read it as it was for Mr, Monk. Apparently, a suspect was well aware of Monks OCD feelings about hygiene, so the suspect made the most about making Monk physically sick with some very gross behavior.


Just to be honest, I havent read all of these novels in sequence, but Mr, Monk and the New Lieutenant takes place after a novel I read where Natalie and Monk where helping out Randy Disher in his role as police chief in Summit, New Jersey.
For those who love the Monk continuity, hes married to Sharona, Indeed, a lot of the ancillary plot deals with the insecure Monk trying to entice Randy back to San Francisco to his old job something of a demotion considering he was “chief” back in New Jersey.


In Mr, Monk and the New Lieutenant, a judges assassination leads the captain to believe that he might be next, Indeed, there is at least one assassin after the captain, Monk and Valerie think the assassins grudge may reflect two cases where the defendants were just eligible for parole, cases that occurred when they were experiencing Mr.
Monk Goes to Germany, So, they were off the hook as potential victims, but Leland is not,

This novel is the type of fun a Monk book needs to be, Better yet, even the mystery was enough to throw me off which doesnt happen that often, And, for just a moment, it seemed like I was eavesdropping on Natalie, Randy, and Adrian complete with their voices in my head, That was satisfying entertainment. And, for the record, I may have been fooled with the main plot, but I was quite correct about the sideshowersupplemental plot,
Quintessentially Monk, except this is just a little morbid and depressing for me, And yes that is speaking as a huge Monk fan,
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At the funeral of Judge Oberlin, of course Monk pronounces that he's been poisoned, I like that in this instance he whispers it, almost as if he is respectful of the sombre event, More likely he feels the tragedy of being blessed amp cursed by his gift, whereby he cannot escape simply being who he is,
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I do love reading about how he deduce cases, however, that never gets tiring, The red herrings are really well done, all the cases in

each book usually adhere to the same theme, In this case, families and wayward sons,
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I won't spoil it for you, I'm pretty sure I've read this particular book at leasttimes, Monk books are like Big Macs for me, You can inhale them quickly, they're like comfort food, never fail to cheer me up, Okay, this one is probably a fourstar book, but I'm giving it five because I gave earlier books in the series two when they should have only been given one.
It's fine. These ratings don't matter to anyone but me,

This is the last in the series, but only the fourth written by Hy Conrad, The firstwere written by Lee Goldberg, who is credited with writing three episodes of the TV series, but evidently with coscreenwriters because he never, in any of the books, had a grasp on the Monk character, whom he portrayed as almost completely detached from reality in the most irritating, quirkinfested way possible.
Conrad, who worked on the show for its entire eightyear run, doesn't have that problem his Monk is the one we know from the show, brilliant but traumatized, careful and sad, often maddening, and always right.


Although Conrad leaves it somewhat openended, this is a fitting finale, And even if a couple of the earlier books were outandout bad, overall, the book series was a fun ride and ended on a high note, I always look forward to a new Monk story, Its always fun to spend a few days of the week reading a new story about Monk, I enjoyed this story more than I did the last book in the series, This was a classic Monk story, the mystery plus all the other side mysteries was fantastic, Monk was Monk in this story, he wasn't hunting for a girlfriend or doing things that was unMonk like behavior, Randy Disher's return was great, his appearance in the story brought some of the funny moments in the story,

I really wish I could say, can't wait until the next story in the series but, unfortunately, if the opening note is to be correct, this will be the last book in the series.
The author, Hy Conrad, did a fantastic job with the four books he wrote for the series and helped keep the character Monk alive for me during those stories.


I really hope, there will be a new author to continue with the series in the future, Hy Conrad left the book in a good area to continue with the characters into more stories, .