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Mr. Monk on the Road

von Lee Goldberg

Reihen: Mr. Monk (11)

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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.
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After solving two San Francisco murders in typical Adrian Monk fashion, the detective decides to do something special for his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, who has not left his house in over 30 years. After lacing his slice of birthday cake with sleeping pills, Adrian and his assistant, Natalie Teeger, carry Ambrose into an RV that Adrian had rented with the intention of taking Ambrose on a tour of California then out to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas–with Natalie as the designated driver, of course.

Understandably, Ambrose is at first furious over being abducted from his home, but begins to relax as the trip progresses. He marvels at the sights and sounds of the outside world. During their travels, the trio encounter two murders that naturally intrigue Adrian, but he is reluctantly dissuaded by Natalie from participating in their investigation. They are on vacation, after all. Along the way, they meet several interesting characters in various trailer parks and are nearly run off the road by an enraged tractor trailer driver.

It isn’t until they reach Vegas that Detective Monk has an epiphany and realizes that all of the events and people they’ve encountered have a deadly connection…

This story takes place after the end of the television series and the events of the final episode are summed up in the first chapter. If you have never seen the final episode, you may wonder what on Earth would inspire Adrian Monk, a man whose phobias are surpassed only by his brother’s, to take a sightseeing tour in an RV. Well, let’s just say that both Detective Monk and his brother has overcome some of their fears, have loosened up a little, and realized there is more to life than solving puzzles and disinfecting everything in sight–except for the RV’s bathroom and dinette table, of course.

Hats off to Lee Goldberg for yet another marvelous Monk mystery. I’ve read about six of his Monk novels to date and have never been disappointed. ( )
  pgiunta | Jul 23, 2015 |
The first "Monk" book following the series finale, I believe. Monk has finally achieved some measure of balance in his life, and uncharacteristically now wants to help his agoraphobic brother Ambrose in the same way. Perhaps his new relationship with Trudy's daughter, Molly, is having an impact. So he talks Natalie into helping him with a most unusual birthday present for Ambrose: they give him the outside world, albeit against his will at first, as they rent an RV, dope Ambrose with a knockout cupcake, load it with his home furnishings, and kidnap him as he sleeps onto the open road. What follows is a journey of discovery for all three of them, although of course they encounter a series of murders along the way (which includes the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Yosemite, Big Sur and Route 66). The story is by turns touching, humorous and suspenseful, and it's a pleasure to find that the series conclusion hasn't ended these books. ( )
  burnit99 | Jan 19, 2011 |
**Monk's out on the open highway--but crime is a hitchhiker that won't be ignored. **

With his job secure and his wife's murder finally solved, Adrian Monk is feeling strangely...satisfied. He'd like his agoraphobic brother Ambrose to feel the same way, so Monk puts a secret ingredient in Ambrose's birthday cake: sleeping pills. When Ambrose wakes up, he's in a motor home on the open road with Monk determined to show him the outside world.
But Ambrose isn't the only one struggling to let go. As little crimes pop up along the highway, Monk can't resist getting involved. Now it's up to Monk to stop a murderer from turning their road trip into a highway to hell.

### Review

Readers of Monk *will enjoy *Mr. Monk on the Road *as much as or more than any of the *Monk* books that have preceded it. Heartily recommended*. --Gumshoe Review

*Lee does a perfect job of capturing all of the wonderful characters and making them as alive on the page as they were on the screen* ----Lorie Ham, Kings River Life Magazine

*This is probably the best *Monk* novel that Lee Goldberg has written by far, plain and simple, it's flat out awesome!* --Gelati's Scoop

*The jokes are funny. The human relationships are serious and treated with dignity and respect, and the mystery aspect is solidly there. This is another fine entry in a spin-off series that's taken on a life of its own* --Bill Crider

### From the Back Cover

**PRAISE FOR LEE GOLDBERG'S *MONK* NOVELS**

""No one else could capture these characters and bring them to life on the page the way Lee Goldberg does!"-- **King's River Life Magazine**

"Goldberg makes Adrian Monk much more interesting than the TV version: the twitches are less obvious, the outcomes much less predictable. Even (or especially) the secondary characters are more interesting and have sharper dialogue."--***Chicago Tribune***

""The only thing more fun than watching Monk is reading the adventures Lee Goldberg creates for him. The books set a high standard from the get-go." ***Crimespree Magazine***

"Full of snippets of slapstick humor and Monk's special talents for observation," ***Library Journal***

"This latest hilariously funny and devilishly clever  novel about TV's obsessive-compulsive sleuth Adrian Monk is an impossible crime lover's delight! Very funny and inventively plotted," ***Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine***

">"Throughout the Mr. Monk series author Lee Goldberg has always kept a firm grasp on exactly who his characters are, and he is able to expertly play them against one another to the best dramatic and comic advantage," ***The Gumshoe Review***

"You'd be hard-pressed to find another recent work that provides so many hip and humorous moments."*** Bookgasm*** ( )
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