Books like Killers of the Dawn

THIS IS NOT a whole bookIt's like someone ripped out the middle of the story and threw a cover around it. The beginning was pretty much non-existent (essentially, the "beginning" was book 8) and the ending was another big fat TO BE CONTINUED... How hard would it be to make these books a bit longer so we don't continuously run into this? And when they (view spoiler)[ offed Mr. Crepsley (hide spoiler)]