* The Red Bench (2005)
* The Language We Speak (2008)
* The Watchers (2010)
* American Psycho (2016, a sequel to the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis)
Anthologies:
* New Orleans Noir: The Big Easy Goes Black (2007, with Loren D. Estleman, John Biguenet, and Julie Smith)
* San Francisco Noir (2009, with Benjamin Black, Michael Connelly, and Joyce Carol Oates)
* Chicago Noir (2011, with Neal Pollack, Dennis Lehane, and Sara Paretsky)
* New York Noir: The Big Apple After Dark (2013, with James Ellroy, Harlan Coben, and Patricia Cornwell)
* Los Angeles Noir (2015, with David Morrell, T. Jefferson Parker, and Steph Cha)
Non-fiction:
* New Orleans: A Guide to the City (2003)
* The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Screenplay (2005)
* Crime Fiction: A Genre Guide (2010)
Short stories:
* "The Red Bench" (2005)
* "The Language We Speak" (2008)
* "The Watchers" (2010)
* "American Psycho" (2016)
* "The Red Bench Revisited" (2020)