Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii by Lee Goldberg (2006, Paperback)

So many of the books taken from TV shows (like that Murder, She Wrote series) - the characters don't ring true. This edition - the characters are really well written, in fact you get a lot more of Natalie than you ever knew before, like how her husband died -- how she felt...the neurosis of Adrian is funny, and remarkably well-translated to the page. The plot is just like the show - he wraps it up quickly and you do flip back to catch the clues you missed on the first read through - the clue to a great mystery is if you actually read passed the clues without catching on --!!

Worth the read, will take you a weekend if that!