* Willful Child (1988)
* Winter Solstice (1990)
* The Reluctant Spy (1993)
* The Body in the Birken Grove: A World War I Mystery (1996)
* City of Endless Night (1998) - winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award
* The Killing Circle: A Novel of Colonial Massachusetts (2001)
* Death and the Maiden: A Mystery of Old New York (2003)
* The Orphan Master: A Novel of the Great Chinese Famine (2007)
Short stories
* "The Death Merchant" (1987)
* "The Red Death" (1989)
* "The Hanging" (1990)
* "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1992)
* "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1994)
* "The Masque of the Red Death" (1996)
* "The Cask of Amontillado" (1998)
* "The Fall of the House of Usher" (2000)
* "The Purloined Letter" (2002)
* "The Gold-Bug" (2004)
* "The Black Cat" (2006)
Nonfiction
* The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe (2004)