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For God so loved the world he gave us monsters.
Helping his angry daughter find her missing husband, Monk and his girlfriend Agnes keep coming across carefully murdered believers as they cross the country on their way to a small isolated religious sect in western Oklahoma. A follower in the church mirrors Monk's movements as they travel, threatening violence if Monk interferes. God is always watching he tells Monk. But Monk knows god can be fickle when it comes to earthly souls and foolish believers.
When they learn the missing husband is involved in the killings and is in contact with his daughter, he and Agnes realize they might be in over their heads, and next.
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After his brother Sterling disappears one too many times, Monk is asked to find him. But what starts as a simple case of a man cheating on his wife, becomes more problematic when a detective shows up asking questions, piquing Monk's curiosity, but is later found murdered. Complicating matters, the detective, like Sterling's lover, is black and transgendered. A world Monk knows little about. He knows Aisha, Sterling's lover is out there, feeding him clues, but unwilling to come out in the open. Sterling claims he doesn't know where she is but offers to seek counseling from a famous LA pastor, whose name has come up before along with someone named Flavius. Monk starts to believe the pastor, like his brother, isn't being honest. This concern only deepens when he finds that three other women tied to both Aisha and the pastor are missing.To make things worse, government figures and Russian interests are asking questions about a dead assassin Monk had confronted the year before, wanting answers and threatening violence.
