Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out — Lee Goldberg

Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place....

The state of California is in a deep financial crisis, and so is Adrian Monk. The SFPD is forced to fire Monk -- yet again -- as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings -- until he learns they are all gone. Then Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investment Fund, is charged with a massive two-billion-dollar fraud, and his swindled clients are paying for it.

When the key witness in the government's case against Sebes is murdered, Monk is convinced that Sebes did it, even though the man has been under house arrest with a horde of paparazzi in front of his building 24-7 But there is one advantage to being broke and jobless: Monk can devote all his obsessive energy to solving this latest mystery. It's payback time....