Series by Emiko Jean
Chelsey Calhoun
The Chelsey Calhoun series in reading order: 1 book reviewed on The Bookish Elf, first published in 2026.
Book 1 in one line: The missing-girl plot is the frame. What Jean is actually building is a portrait of a woman narrated entirely in second person, and it is the best writing she has done.
Books reviewed1
Series average4.0★
Where to start
Book 1Before You Were Anne2026 · ★ 4.0
A detective five months pregnant, a murdered woman who spent a decade under a borrowed name, and a sixteen-year-old who went looking for her father and found something else.
Read our review of Before You Were Anne →2
A detective five months pregnant, a murdered woman who spent a decade under a borrowed name, and a sixteen-year-old who went looking for her father and found something else.
Frequently asked questions
What is the reading order of the Chelsey Calhoun series?
Where should I start the Chelsey Calhoun series?
Start with Before You Were Anne, first published in 2026.