- *The War at Home* (1997)
- *The Burning Air* (1999)
- *All That Bacon Can Be* (2000, a co-authored collection of short stories)
- *The Five Hundred* (2001)
- *Missing Mile Marker* (2002)
- *Dead in Her Sleep* (2003)
- *The House Party* (2004)
- *Our Only Child* (2005)
- *The Snake Show* (2006)
- *The One Good Thing* (2008)
- *The Betrayers* (2009)
- *The Key to Everything* (2010)
- *The Candidate* (2011)
- *The House Cat Chronicles* (2012, four short stories)
- *The Right Thing* (2013)
- *A Child Shall Lead Them* (2014)
- *The Girl Who Wasn’t There* (2016)
- *The Man Without a Face* (2017)
Crime Writers Association Best Novel Award nominations
- *Missing Mile Marker* (2003)
- *Our Only Child* (2006)
- *The House Cat Chronicles* (2013)
Nonfiction:
- *The Secret Life of Bill: Life, Love and Death at a Christian College* (2016, a memoir)
- *The House Cat Chronicles: And Other Stories About Life and Death* (2017)
- *The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWII’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Never Came Home* (2018)
- *Our War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and America’s Moral Mission* (2020)
Short Stories
- *The Betrayers* (2009)
- *The Key to Everything* (2010)
- *A Child Shall Lead Them* (2014)