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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
I tend to read cozy mysteries in order too, even though most of them tend to work as standalones. After all, it kind of spoils the "are they the murderer?" in book one when you know that they're still around in book five.
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Very well said.
If characters are in danger in one book but fine in subsequent books, then you know nothing really happened.
That's why I say that standalone books in a series are not really standalone. There's going to be something to spoil something else when read out of order.