Books by Lee Goldberg
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review 1: Downloaded this one for the plane ride home after a long weekend. All I wanted was a fun good-guy-beats-bad-guy tale, and on one level that's what I got. I wasn't expecting to turn my brain completely off, though. The protagonist was a laughably white-washed knight in shining arm...
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review 1: I started reading this book and I was sort of meh. Although other reviewers didn't seem to like Marty, I did almost from the beginning. The one I didn't like was Buck. What an annoying character. But as the book went on I got liking Buck's character more and more. I also liked ho...
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review 1: 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 mo...
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review 1: The first volume of this series reads sorta like Stephen King writing a horror version of the Destroyer series. It's fast paced and gory, the writing's a little clumsy, and it totally lacks subtlety: the good guy is an Upstanding Good Citizen, the bad guys are leering evil creeps...
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review 1: I listened to this book on my MP3 player, while I worked in the yard. I enjoyed it very much. I love Mr. Monk and his OCD's, which are much greater in the books, than on the TV series. The actress, who played Natalie on the TV series, narrated the book, and did a great job. Mo...
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review 1: (2.93/5.00)This was just as ridiculous as the TV show, which is a compliment. That's why I watched the show. If you don't like the far-fetched comedic mystery with no regard for actual police procedure, don't read or watch Monk.I think the best part of this book (and I have not...
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review 1: I LOVE these Monk books! They are written by the same man who wrote the TV episodes so they flow just like an episode does. The story is told by Natalie and it's fun to see her thought process while she deals with Monk.SFPD has to let Monk go due to budget cuts. Then Monk disc...
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review 1: Here's another great episode in the Monk series. Lee Goldberg continues to write fantastic Monk adventures that always bring a smile to my face or a chuckle. Goldberg has a deep understanding of the character (unlike many of the other television series related novelists out ther...
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review 1: Another thoroughly fun and engrossing Monk mystery. This one takes place after the series ends. Natalie is once again the voice of reason while Monk investigates three linked murders. Meanwhile, she launches an investigation of her own, to discover the identity of a John Doe foun...
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review 1: This is another fine romp in the Mr. Monk universe offered by Lee Goldberg. In fact, this one is one of, if not, the best of the series that I have read, and I have read quite a few of them. This time, Monk decides to do something pleasant for his brother, Ambrose. Ambrose is a...
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review 1: I love the Monk TV series and this book is a bit different from the actual episode of the same name. However, this book was a good read. It's written from the perspective of Natalie, Monk's assistant, and features Detective Stottlemeyer getting in trouble. I was a bit turned off ...
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review 1: In the midst of a financial crisis, the SFPD fires Adrian Monk as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings for a while. Then Natalie learns that Monk invested his money some time ago with Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investments, who's just been arre...
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review 1: I take it back. Reading this series, I've so far said that I prefer the stories set on home ground, and felt the others were forced.This one is the exception to the rule. Monk and Natalie go to Summit, New Jersey to help Randy and Sharona and although it is still within the US, i...
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review 1: Impulse pick up from the library. This was such a fun and humorous read!! Now I have a dilemma, do I go back and read every other book in the series? Because that is exactly what I want to do. And it will impact the pace of other books I had planned out.I loved the show and init...
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review 1: This was another good book to read.Monk's world seems shattered as he learns his brother, Ambrose, has allowed a woman to move in with him.Natalie tries her had at solving the mystery of an unknown man found dead in an apartment.Though he died of natural causes she wants to know ...
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review 1: I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is the first in the series that I have read. I was a big fan of the TV series and this book followed spirit and flow of the TV series quite well. It was a pleasure to follow the usual characters on an international journey. The Paris travelogu...
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review 1: In this satire of the cutthroat television industry, former Beverly Hills cop Charlie Willis ends up starring in his own detective show in exchange for his silence after being shot by the Angela Lansbury-like star of "Miss Agatha." While it is an interesting concept, especially ...