Death (Terry Pratchett)

A five-novel arc within Terry Pratchett's Discworld, following Death — the Disc's scythe-carrying, capital-letter-speaking personification of mortality — as his growing fascination with humanity keeps pulling him away from his own job.

Beginning with Mort, the books trace Death taking on an apprentice, going on self-directed "holidays" from his duties, and clashing with the being who steps in to cover for him, while his adopted granddaughter Susan Sto Helit is drawn into the family trade.

Each book resolves its own crisis and can be read on its own, though the household and Susan's role grow across the five.