That's because unfortunately, nobody has really come up with a standard way of dealing with these things (except calibre of course, YAY calibre!!!).
I just go with putting the info in the title.
Calibre plugboards are your friend here, try this:
Code:
{title}{series:| (|, }{series_index:|Book |)}
giving you for example, based on your example of the dresden files,
Cold Days (Dresden Files, Book 14)