Plot Synopsis
Candace plans on marrying her fiance Brian Galloway on Kauai, an island in the northwest part of Hawaii. The venue is the fanciest hotel on the island, the Grand Kiahuna Poipu Hotel, in Poipu, Hawaii. Candace invites her friend Natalie Teeger to be her maid of honor at the wedding. The primary reason for Candace's decision is the fact that she was there for Natalie when Julie was born and when Mitch died. All Natalie is to do is give the ring to Candace at the wedding. However, it only so happens that Natalie is Adrian Monk's assistant, and so she hires someone from a temporary staffing agency to look in on Monk.
Natalie continues looking for the right moment to tell Monk that she is going to Hawaii when Captain Stottlemeyer summons Monk to the scene of a bizarre murder. The victim is Dr. Lyle Douglas, a renowned heart surgeon. He was poisoned in the middle of performing a quadruple bypass operation on Stella Picaro, his 44-year-old ex-nurse. In the middle of the operation, Douglas had a seizure and dropped dead. Another surgeon, Dr. Troy Clark, rushed in to revive Ms. Picaro. It wasn't until the autopsy the next day that they realized he was poisoned. Monk immediately knows who did it, and how: Picaro herself, despite being operated on at the time.
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