An all-new original mystery starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... It may be a foggy San Francisco summer, but for Adrian Monk the future is looking bright. Natalie is off working as a cop in Summit, his brother Ambrose and Yuki are a week away from their wedding, Monk has a new assistant—Natalie's daughter Julie—and even a girlfriend, Ellen Morse. All this change doesn't keep Monk from work, though. He's investigating a string of accidental deaths and suicides that he quickly determines are actually murders. But when the man Monk pegs for the murder is killed, Monk is forced to face the fact that, for the first time, he might actually be wrong. Have stability, domesticity, and happiness robbed Monk of his special skills? Has Monk lost his mojo? Meanwhile, Monk's imprisoned arch nemesis, the morbidly obese criminal mastermind Dale the Whale, is being transferred from prison to San Francisco General Hospital for an operation. But when Dale escapes and all signs point to Captain Stottlemeyer as his accomplice, Monk will have to reboot his detective skills to clear the captain's name—and prove that he's still the one and only Monk.

THE REAL OCD: Welcome to the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place. Captain Leland Stottlemeyer relies on Monk to solve his most baffling cases -- so most of the credit and attention goes to Monk. But Stottlemeyer is okay with that. Or is he? When the captain is faced with budget cuts, Monk's fees are one of the expenses he trims. Monk is too compulsive to stop investigating; he resorts to calling in tips under assumed names. The captain is infuriated, and so is Monk's assistant, Natalie, who would like to see Monk -- and herself -- get paid. But when Stottlemeyer is arrested for murder, he turns to the only detective who can possibly prove his innocence: Adrian Monk. That is, if Monk can overcome some potentially crippling obstacles along the way.

Only a special kind of person can keep up with Adrian Monk's methods. One such person is his former assistant, Sharona. And now that her husband has been arrested for murder, she's back in San Francisco, ready to reclaim her place in Monk's life.

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.

Monk investigates three strangers and murder victims--a security guard, a struggling student, and a beautiful woman--who have nothing in common but a couch.

Hired by the accounting firm of Plumbeck and Ergenweiler to investigate the disappearance of the partners's shared mistress, San Francisco investigator Aaron Asherfeld finds himself embroiled in a sexual harassment suit and a drug dealer's pursuits.

Investigating the death of a philosophy professor at a fashionable northern California university, Aaron Asherfield interrogates the radical--and somewhat ridiculous--racial, sexual and intellectual factions at the college, each of which harbors a secret about the dead man.