Review - Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu

Before we left for Philadelphia, I finished reading Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu by Lee Goldberg. This was a funny book. Monk was asked to take over the detective squad as commander after the regular officers staged a blue flu in a plan for the officers to get a better contract with the city. The bad news is that makes Monk a scab, and he doesn't like the sound of that. But he has his badge back. So does "Mad Jack" a violent sociopath, paranoid schizophrenic, and a senile old man, all former offers who had also been asked to come back. So they pull together to catch an astrologers killer, clear a series of mysterious fatal assaults, and clean the squad room.

It was another funny and clever book.Goldberg is getting better as he writes more books in this series. Again, the story is told from Natalie's perspective and is well done.