- *The Woman in Black* (1983)
- *Possession* (1990)
- *The Birdwatcher* (1992)
- *What Angels Fear* (1994)
- *The Essence of the Night* (1998)
- *The House at Riverton* (2003)
- *The Private Patient* (2008)
- *The Other House* (2012)
- *The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel* (2016)
- *The Bone Garden* (2020)
Short story collections:
- *The Company of the Dead* (1994)
- *Micawber: Tales of Detection* (2005)
- *Strangers: And Other Stories* (2011)
- *Haunted: Collected Ghost Stories* (2013)
Children's books:
- *The Tales of Mrs. Whistler* (1995)
- *Daisy Bates in the Great War* (2009)
Memoirs:
- *A Stranger Here Below* (2016)