Review of Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse

I thought this was a cleverly written and well-done mystery. The deaths of three innocent people (especially a well-liked old lady who was a cancer survivor, as deduced from her relatives' conversation) are handled as professionally and respectfully as possible in good Agatha Christie-style, with a phony supernatural pretense, later revealed to have been a canard (some of the plot mirrors Agatha Christie's "The ABC Murders") but the killer is uncovered in usual Monk style. Meat Loaf, wisely and mercifully underplaying, is hilarious. (His first appearance lampoons the arrival of the priest in "The Exorcist".) All in all, intriguing and amusing.