• 2010 Harper Lee Award winner for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year
• Received Alabama State Council on the Arts literary fellowship for her writing
• 2009 Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence

As herself

The Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries

1. Bone Appetit (expected July 2010)
2. Greedy Bones (2009)
3. Wishbones (2008)
4. Ham Bones (2007)
5. Bones to Pick (2007)
6. Hallowed Bones (2005)
7. Crossed Bones (2004)
8. Splintered Bones (2003)
9. Buried Bones (2000)
10. Them Bones (1999)

Non-series

1. Fever Moon (2007)
2. Revenant (2007)
3. Penumbra (2006)
4. Summer of the Redeemers (2005)
5. Judas Burning (2005)
6. Touched (2004)
7. My Mother's Witness: The Peggy Morgan Story (2003)

Short stories

"The Wish" in Many Bloody Returns (2009)

As editor

1. Delta Blues (expected May 2010)

As Caroline Burnes

Fear Familiar Series (Harlequin Intrigue)

1. Familiar Vows (2009)
2. Familiar Escape (2006)
3. Familiar Stranger (2005)
4. Familiar Texas (2005)
5. Familiar Pursuit in The Truth About Cats and Dogs (2004) (short story)
6. Familiar Double (2003)
7. Familiar Lullaby (2001)
8. Familiar Oasis (2002)
9. Familiar Mirage (2002)
10. Familiar Obsession (2000)
11. Familiar Valentine (1999)
12. Fear Christmas (1999)
13. Familiar Fire (1998)
14. Familiar Heart (1997)
15. Bewitching Familiar (1995)
16. Familiar Tale (1995)
17. Fear Remedy (1994)
18. Shades of Familiar (1994)
19. Thrice Familiar (1993)
20. Too Familiar (1993)
21. Fear Familiar (1990)

Other Harlequin Intrigue

1. Babe in the Woods (2003)
2. Rider in the Mist (2003)
3. Deadly Currents (2002)
4. Midnight Burning (2001)
5. Texas Midnight (2000)
6. Remember Me Cowboy (1998)
7. Midnight Prey (1997)
8. Christmas Kiss (1996)
9. Cutting Edge (1994)
10. Hoodwinked (1993)
11. Fatal Ingredients (1992)
12. Phantom Filly (1989)
13. Measure of Deceit (1988)
14. A Deadly Breed (1988)

As Lizzie Hart

1. Shop Talk (1998)