• Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Division, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner for The Broken Wheel
• Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 2002: honour book for A Different Sort of Real : The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919
• Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2002: winner for The Three-Pronged Dagger
• Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2003: nominated for The Wandering Icon
• Davitt Award, Best Adult Novel, 2003: nominated for Murder in Montparnasse : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Lifetime Contribution, 2003
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Queen of the Flowers : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books, 2006: shortlisted for Journey to Eureka
• Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2006: joint winner for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
• Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2007: joint winner for Devil's Food
• Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2008: nominated for Trick or Treat

Phryne Fisher novels

• Cocaine Blues (1989) aka Death by Misadventure
• Flying Too High (1992)
• Murder on the Ballarat Train (1992)
• Death at Victoria Dock (1993)
• The Green Mill Murder (1993)
• Blood And Circuses (1994)
• Ruddy Gore (1995)
• Urn Burial (1995)
• Raisins and Almonds (1997)

• Death before wicket : a Phryne Fisher mystery (2003, c1999)
• Murder in Montparnasse (2002)
• The Castlemaine Murders (2004)
• The Phryne Fisher Mysteries: Cocaine Blues / Flying Too High (omnibus) (2004)
• Queen of the Flowers (2004)
• Away With the Fairies (2005)
• Death By Water (2005)
• Murder in the Dark (2006)
• A Question of Death: An illustrated Phryne Fisher treasury (2007)
• Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)
• Dead Man's Chest (2010)

Delphic Women

• Cassandra (1995)
• Electra (1996)
• Medea (1997)

Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle)

• The Bold and The Brave (2000)

Corinna Chapman

• Earthly Delights (2004)
• Heavenly Pleasures (2005)
• Devil's Food (2006)
• Trick or Treat (2007)
• Forbidden Fruit (2009)

Stormbringer

• The Rat and the Raven (2005)
• Lightning Nest (2006)
• Ravens Rising (2006)

Novels

• The Wandering Icon (1992)
• The Childstone Cycle (1994)
• Quest (1996)
• The Broken Wheel (1996)
• Whaleroad (1996)
• Cave Rats (1997)
• Feral (1998)
• Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral published in one volume in 2002

• Alien Invasions (2000) (with Shannah Jay and Lucy Sussex, edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain)
• A different sort of real : the diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919 (2001)
• The Three-Pronged Dagger (2002)
• Danger Do Not Enter (2003)
• The Long Walk (2004)
• Journey to Eureka (2005)

Collections

• Recipes for Crime (1995) (with Jenny Pausacker)

Anthologies edited

• Bad to the Bones (2002)

Short fiction

Non-fiction

• On Murder (2000)
• On Murder 2 (2002)