1. Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse 2. Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii 3. Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu 4. Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants 5. Mr. Monk in Outer Space 6. Mr. Monk Goes to Germany 7. Mr. Monk is Miserable 8. Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop 9. Mr. Monk in Trouble 10. Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out MR. MONK AND THE TWO ASSISTANTS nly a special kind of person can keep up with Monk's brilliant, if idiosyncratic, methods. One such person is his former assistant, Sharona. And now that her ne'er-do-well husband has been arrested for murder, she's back in San Francisco, ready to reclaim her place in Monk's extremely well-ordered life. His current assistant, Natalie, is not at all pleased with this turn of events. As little as her job pays, she's grown fond of Monk and would rather not get fired. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few unsettling snags in the case against Sharona's husband. With bestselling crime novelist Ian Ludlow nosing around, and other cases taking his attention, Monk may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead... ORDER THE BOOK from Amazon. HIGH PRAISE "Since we're now on the fourth novel you might expect the plots and characters to begin to blur a little, but the opposite is true. Each book is delightfully unique. Maybe it's just me, but I see more depth and substance in this novel, than in the first three, which were all solidly entertaining in their own right. The exploration of the two relationships between Monk and his assistants is fascinating. The novel touches on the similarities, the differences, the humor and the evolution of both relationships. Great stuff."    —The Monk Fun Page "Mr. Monk and The Two Assistants is the best Monk novel yet. Remember Monk's fist assistant, the demonstrative Sharona Fleming? She reappears in hopes that Monk will help her prove that her husband is innocent of the murder charge he's facing. Of course Monk now has a new assistant, the more refined Natalie Teeger. Needless to say this novel isn't big enough to hold both of them. Not only must Monk deal with murder and his numerous neuroses, he must also wriggle his way between his two assistants...There is some especially good detection here as well as some of Monk's most impressive battles with germs."    —Bookgasm "Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants is a humorous whodunit. It is written in the voice of Natalie, who—in this novel especially—feels very much like Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick Dr. Watson, and it is great fun to watch her struggle through the twists and turns of the plot. She is often just as lost as the reader when confronted with the powerful deductive abilities of Adrian Monk, and the wonderfully outlandish murders he solves. Mr. Goldberg does an admirable job of portraying the characters. The novel is at its best when the entire gang is on hand—Captain Stottlemeyer, Lieutenant Disher, Monk, Natalie, and Sharona. The dialogue is pitch perfect, and the atmosphere of the television series is captured very well, except, instead of a single episode it feels like a two-part extravaganza."    —Gravetapping "It's not often that a reader can be entirely satisfied when one of their favorite TV characters is transported into the pages of a book. But Lee Goldberg has an advantage over most: he has co-written several episodes of the hit TV series "Monk" so he is dually qualified to be writing this latest Monk mystery, "Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants." [...] Even if you aren't familiar with the TV series "Monk", this book is too funny to not be read. Goldberg's comic genius is channeled by Monk throughout and the truth of the crime is always worth waiting for. Reading this book is like reading a script of the weekly show, making this read a delightful treat for any fan."    —The Weekly Journal in Angleton, Texas "This is the fourth of Lee Goldberg's Monk novels that I've read. I've enjoyed all of them, but this one is the best to date, in no small measure because of its fairly-clued solution. The clue, I might point out, is kept in front of the reader throughout the book, but is nevertheless elusive—a sign of excellent authorial misdirection. Recommended without reservations."    —Barry Ergang, Futures Magazine "I love this series. Sure, Monk is an unrealistic character, and some of his feats prove a little harder to swallow than others. But they're good light mysteries, and more intricate than you'd expect. (This one, in fact, was so intricate that it became a little confusing at the end.) What makes the books shine, however, is Monk's dialogue, which is spot on and often hilarious."    —Debra Hamel, SpikeBooks and BookBlog