When Jessica publishes her first murder mystery, it shoots to the top of the best-seller list. Then, at a costume party, Jessica must solve the murder of another guest costumed as Sherlock Holmes.
Monk has stiff competition solving the case of a murdered jewelry store owner from a second-rate PI with a loser reputation who suddenly displays skills even more amazing than Monk's.
On Halloween, Monk visits his brother Ambrose in his childhood home to await a visit from his long-absent father, but things take a strange turn when a masked trick-or-treater repeatedly tries to steal Halloween candy.
When Natalie finally catches up with the pizza guy who mistakenly left her $50 in change, she finds him dead in his car. She feels compelled to solve the murder but Monk, sick in bed, offers little help.
A parking garage attendant is inadvertently killed when a murderer targets a financier, and Monk must go undercover as an office worker to solve the case.
Jessica arrives in Hollywood to protest the filming of her novel and prevent it from becoming a trashy movie, only to find herself heading a list of murder suspects.
While visiting her cousin at Langley Manor, a country estate in the South, a man dies during a fox-hunt under strange circumstances, and Jessica tries to find out what really happened.
Steve meets a new girlfriend on a television game show and then investigates when she's killed. Steve suspects her estranged brother, a doctor at Community General.
While on vacation for his anniversary, Mr. Monk chats with an intrusive but well-intentioned man at dinner. But when he wakes up the next day, everyone insists that the man was never there.
For the first time in years, Monk has made progress in therapy. But when Natalie discovers that Trudy may be alive, she risks unraveling her boss completely.
Natalie asks Randy to be her date to her brother's wedding. But when he's run down in the parking lot, Monk steps in to figure out what exactly is going on.
A woman expecting to get engaged on her all-important 30th birthday gets a different surprise after she makes her birthday wish: a glimpse into her future - which doesn't resemble anything she's ever imagined for herself.
On the eve of turning 50 and her daughters' nuptials, Mindy Quinn finds herself doing the most unexpected thing: rekindling a romance that ended thirty years ago. Starring Teri Hatcher, James Tupper.
