Monk Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu, Book 3, (Paperback)

from sweetiegherkin

This book is a part of a series developed around the television show Monk. As such, it essentially operates as another procedural episode of the show, albeit one that gets to be a little more detailed and contain more than one mystery as there's not the 40-minute time constraint. When the "flu" p...

from burnit99

Monk is finally given a chance to get back on the police force, as a homicide captain. The bad news is, it's as a scab when the police force, locked in contract negotiations, call in with a "Blue flu". Monk takes over a motley squad of investigators who are similarly grasping at a last chance to ...

from bookwormteri

Wow. Plenty of murders here for Monk to solve, plus the entire upper echelon of the SFPD have come down with the blue flu. (Their contracts were up for negotiation and their union leaders could not get what they wanted.) Monk is reinlisted as Captain of the homicide department while labor negotia...

from jennifer146

"Mr. Monk and The Blue Flu" is my second favorite book in the series after "Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants". In this book, most of the San Francisco police department calls in sick due to poor pay and the fact that police officers can not go on strike. The mayor is left without most of the city'...

from jfe16

When negotiations between the city and the San Francisco Police Department result in a bout of Blue Flu, Mayor Smitrovich offers Adrian Monk the opportunity to return to the force as the captain of the homicide division. He finds himself faced with a murderer, several fatal assaults, and the mana...