Sometimes when series start to get long and a plot in a middle book intrigues me, I wonder how much I’ll miss if I read them out of order. Sometimes it really doesn’t matter. My romances, for instance, are sequential, but hey, they’re romances, and it’s not really a spoiler that each couple gets together by the end of a book. It’s how they get together. So you can read them in any order with no issues.

My Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries can be read on their own. The main mystery is solved in eve...