Capturing the devil was darkly delicious. It's an amazing finale to the Stalking Jack the Ripper series and Kerri Maniscalco gave me almost everything I wanted.

First and foremost, she gave me the improper romance I wanted between Audrey Rose and Thomas. I loved the scenes because there wasn't too much of the actual actions they did, but the implications were enough to sate me.

While I did want the romance between them to fully blossom, I felt there was too much of Audrey's internal conflicts and her and Thomas's wedding (disaster). I found myself wanting more of the actual mystery portion in this book. I needed more of the book to be revolved around solving the murder, instead of solving their personal conflicts. That would have to be my one of two critiques.

My second critique would have to be that usually, Kerri includes more about the setting. For example, in London she accurately described lots of the streets and places there. In fact, I remembered most of them when I read A Tale of Two Cities and Clockwork Angel. I feel like she could've done the same with New York and Chicago, but . . . she did what she believed was right.

Everything else was exceptional. The descriptions, of the food especially, were magnificent. I loved the frilly dresses (surprisingly) and all of the romantic parts. I also enjoyed the darkness in which Kerri described the "Devil" of Chicago/ the real Jack the Ripper. I found it very interesting how she twisted and finally tied up the ending as well. It was very intriguing and was almost unputdownable (I had class so I had to stop sometimes).

Overall, while not my favorite of the four in the series, it definitely packed quite a punch and finished the series up nicely.