I am a mystery fan. But I do enjoy the odd little adventure with a touch of mystery in which no one get killed! What I find attractive in John Galavan's work are the locations (coast of Oregon), plentiful birds (I love my birds!) and the odd assortment of people that come to the bed and breakfast. It's that crazy B&B that attracts some of the oddest things! People I mean.

I would start reading Galavan with Mastering Evil because it was published first. Best, I almost forgot, is that there is a continuing core group of people and birds that must deal with the oddly destructive visitor to the Little Bird'N B&B. But hey, Monks is great!!