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Chelsea Cain Books in Order

Chelsea Cain has written 19 books, published between 1996 and 2022. The first book is Dharma Girl (1996) and the newest is Man-Eaters, Vol. 4: The Cursed (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
1996–2022
Confirmed
19 of 19 titles
Pages on record
2,696 in 13 of 19 books
Reading time
45–67 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,696 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 13 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

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Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell head Chelsea Cain's crime novels from Heartsick (2007), with police work and women serial murderers among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 19 books, starting at Dharma Girl (1996) and reaching a Man-Eaters graphic novel in 2022, with Kick Lannigan, Spy Island, the Mockingbird comics and humorous non-fiction alongside. Portland is the recurring setting.

How many Chelsea Cain books are there?

Chelsea Cain has 19 books, released between 1996 and 2022. They include 5 separate series.

Chelsea Cain Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Chelsea Cain books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Dharma Girl by Chelsea Cain, book 1 of the Chelsea Cain Non-Fiction series (1996)
  2. Cover of Wild Child by Chelsea Cain, book 2 of the Chelsea Cain Non-Fiction series (1999)
  3. Cover of The Hippie Handbook by Chelsea Cain, book 3 of the Chelsea Cain Non-Fiction series (2004)
  4. Cover of Confessions of a Teen Sleuth by Chelsea Cain, book 1 of the Chelsea Cain Standalone Novels series (2005)
  5. Cover of Does This Cape Make Me Look Fat? by Chelsea Cain, book 4 of the Chelsea Cain Non-Fiction series (2006)
  6. Cover of Heartsick by Chelsea Cain, book 1 of the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series (2007)
  7. Cover of Evil At Heart by Chelsea Cain, book 3 of the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series (2009)
  8. Cover of The Night Season by Chelsea Cain, book 4 of the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series (2011)
  9. Cover of Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain, book 5 of the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series (2012)
  10. Cover of Let Me Go by Chelsea Cain, book 6 of the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series (2013)
  11. Cover of One Kick / Gone by Chelsea Cain, book 1 of the Kick Lannigan series (2014)
  12. Cover of Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain by Chelsea Cain, book 1 of the Mockingbird Graphic Novels series (2016)
  13. Cover of Mockingbird Vol. 2: My Feminist Agenda by Chelsea Cain, book 2 of the Mockingbird Graphic Novels series (2017)
  14. Cover of Man-Eaters, Volume 1 by Chelsea Cain, book 1 of the Man-Eaters Graphic Novels series (2019)
  1. 1
    Dharma GirlChelsea Cain Non-Fiction #11996 · 170 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996170
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  2. 2
    Wild ChildChelsea Cain Non-Fiction #21999 · 186 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1999186
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  3. 3
    The Hippie HandbookChelsea Cain Non-Fiction #32004 · 176 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2004176
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  4. 4
    Confessions of a Teen SleuthChelsea Cain Standalone Novels #12005 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2005160
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  5. 5
    Does This Cape Make Me Look Fat?Chelsea Cain Non-Fiction #42006 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2006144
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  6. 6
    HeartsickArchie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #12007 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2007336
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  7. 7
    SweetheartArchie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #22008 · 336 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2008336
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  8. 8
    Evil At HeartArchie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #32009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  9. 9
    The Night SeasonArchie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #42011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  10. 10
    Kill You TwiceArchie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #52012 · 326 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012326
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  11. 11
    Let Me GoArchie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell #62013 · 358 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2013358
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  12. 12
    One Kick / GoneKick Lannigan #12014 · confirmed 3/4
    2014–
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  13. 13
    Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can ExplainMockingbird Graphic Novels #12016 · confirmed 3/4
    2016–
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  14. 14
    Mockingbird Vol. 2: My Feminist AgendaMockingbird Graphic Novels #22017 · 120 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2017120
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  15. 15
    Man-Eaters, Volume 1Man-Eaters Graphic Novels #12019 · 128 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019128
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  16. 16
    Man-Eaters, Volume 2Man-Eaters Graphic Novels #22019 · 128 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019128
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  17. 17
    Man-Eaters, Volume 3Man-Eaters Graphic Novels #32019 · 128 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019128
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  18. 18
    Spy IslandSpy Island #12021 · confirmed 3/4
    2021–
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  19. 19
    Man-Eaters, Vol. 4: The CursedMan-Eaters Graphic Novels #42022 · confirmed 3/4
    2022–
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Chelsea Cain books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell in order

6 books
  1. 1. Heartsick
  2. 2. Sweetheart
  3. 3. Evil At Heart
  4. 4. The Night Season
  5. 5. Kill You Twice
  6. 6. Let Me Go

Chelsea Cain Non-Fiction

4 books

4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Man-Eaters Graphic Novels in order

4 books
  1. 1. Man-Eaters, Volume 1
  2. 2. Man-Eaters, Volume 2
  3. 3. Man-Eaters, Volume 3
  4. 4. Man-Eaters, Vol. 4: The Cursed

Mockingbird Graphic Novels in order

2 books
  1. 1. Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain
  2. 2. Mockingbird Vol. 2: My Feminist Agenda

Chelsea Cain Standalone Novels

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Kick Lannigan in order

1 book
  1. 1. One Kick / Gone

Spy Island in order

1 book
  1. 1. Spy Island

Chelsea Cain Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Chelsea Cain books run from Dharma Girl (1996) to Man-Eaters, Vol. 4: The Cursed (2022), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Chelsea Cain in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Chelsea Cain books in order?

You only need to read Chelsea Cain books in order within each series: the books listed here span 5 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Chelsea Cain

Start with Dharma Girl (1996), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Chelsea Cain book?

Man-Eaters, Vol. 4: The Cursed (2022) is the newest Chelsea Cain book released so far.

Is there a new Chelsea Cain book coming?

No next Chelsea Cain book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Chelsea Cain at a glance

Paused
No new Chelsea Cain title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
Release pace
Chelsea Cain books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,696 pages across the 13 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 170 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Chelsea Cain books, 9 of 19, were published in the 2010s.

What the Chelsea Cain books are about

16 of the 19 Chelsea Cain books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: women journalists is tagged on 5 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.