Stalking Jack the Ripper Books in Order

The Stalking Jack the Ripper series drops you straight into the gaslit streets and morgues of the late 1800s, following Audrey Rose Wadsworth, a lord's daughter who would rather dissect corpses than plan her next society tea. In Stalking Jack the Ripper she secretly apprentices in her uncle's laboratory while a killer stalks London, and her curiosity pulls her into the center of the case.

Audrey Rose's world is all sharp contrasts, silk gowns and bloodstained aprons, etiquette lessons and late night autopsies. Maniscalco uses that tension to explore what it means for a young woman to chase a scientific career in a time when most people think she should be safely married. The series leans heavily on forensic details, from examining wounds to reading crime scenes, but never forgets that each victim had a life before they became evidence.

In Hunting Prince Dracula the story leaves England for a remote Romanian academy of forensic medicine housed in a castle once linked to Vlad the Impaler. Surrounded by folklore, secret tunnels, and classmates who doubt she belongs there, Audrey Rose investigates bloodless bodies that suggest a vampire has returned, even as she works through the trauma of the Ripper case.

Escaping from Houdini shifts the action to an opulent ocean liner bound for New York, where a traveling carnival of performers and an enigmatic young illusionist dazzle first class passengers. When privileged women start disappearing and bodies are found with no way off the ship, the Moonlight Carnival's tricks and traps become part of a claustrophobic puzzle Audrey Rose and Thomas must solve before the voyage ends.

The novella Becoming the Dark Prince offers a companion view of those events and their aftermath from Thomas Cresswell's perspective, filling in emotional beats and decisions that shape the final book, Capturing the Devil. That last installment takes the pair to America, where the glitter of the World's Fair in Chicago hides a nightmare hotel built to prey on travelers. The case pushes their investigative skills, their sense of justice, and their relationship to the breaking point.

Across the series you can expect a blend of historical crime, gothic atmosphere, and a slow burn romance full of banter and mutual respect. Each mystery stands on its own, but Audrey Rose and Thomas's growth, along with the way they challenge rigid Victorian rules, makes the books especially satisfying when read in order from Stalking Jack the Ripper through Capturing the Devil.