Novels

• Death Turns A Trick (Walker & Co., 1982)
• The Sourdough Wars (Walker & Co., 1984)
• True-Life Adventure (Mysterious Press, 1985)
• Tourist Trap (Mysterious Press, 1986)
• Huckleberry Fiend (Mysterious Press, 1987)
• New Orleans Mourning (St. Martin's Press, 1990)
• The Axeman's Jazz (St. Martin's Press, 1991)
• Dead in the Water (Ivy, 1991)
• Other People's Skeletons (Ivy, 1993)
• Jazz Funeral (Fawcett/Columbine, 1993)
• New Orleans Beat (Fawcett/Columbine, 1994)
• House of Blues (Fawcett/Columbine, 1995)
• The Kindness of Strangers (Fawcett/Columbine, 1996)
• Crescent City Kill (Fawcett/Columbine, 1997)
• 82 Desire (Fawcett/Columbine, 1998)
• Louisiana Hotshot (Forge, 2001)
• Louisiana Bigshot (Forge, 2002)
• Mean Woman Blues (Forge, 2003)
• Louisiana Lament (Forge, 2004)
• P.I. On A Hot Tin Roof (Forge, 2005)
• Murder on Magazine (booksBnimble, 2018)
• The Big Crazy (booksBnimble, 2019)

Short stories

• "Grief Counselor", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, 1978; reprinted in Miniature Mysteries: 100 Malicious Little Mystery Stories, edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Joseph D. Olander (Taplinger, 1981), and in Last Laughs: The 1986 Mystery Writers of America Anthology, edited by Gregory McDonald (Mysterious Press, 1986)
• "The Wrong Number", Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, 1979
• "Crime Wave in Pinhole", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 1980; reprinted in The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, edited by Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, and Martin H. Greenberg (Arbor House, 1981)
• "Project Mushroom", Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1983; reprinted in 101 Mystery Stories, edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenbery (Avenel, 1986)
• "Red Rock", Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration, edited by Byron Preiss (Knopf, 1988)
• "Blood Types", Sisters In Crime, edited by Marilyn Wallace (Berkley, 1989)
• "Cul-de-Sac", Sisters In Crime II, edited by Marilyn Wallace (Berkley, 1990)
• "Montezuma's Other Revenge", Justice for Hire, edited by Robert J Randisi (Mysterious Press, 1990)
• "A Marriage Made in Hell", Eye of a Woman, edited by Sara Paretsky (Delacorte Press, 1991)
• "Silk Strands", Deadly Allies, edited by Marilyn Wallace and Robert J. Randisi (Bantam, 1992)
• "Strangers on a Plane", Unusual Suspects, edited by James Grady, (Black Lizard Press, 1996)
• "The End of the Earth", Detective Duos, edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• "Where The Boys Are", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, September 1998
• "Too Mean to Die", Blue Lightning, edited by John Harvey (Slow Dancer Press, 1998)
• "Fresh Paint", Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins, 1999)
• "Always Othello", Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, June 1999
• "Let's Go Knock Over Seaside", Murder and Magnolias (HarperCollins 2000)
• "Kid Trombone", Murder And All That Jazz (Signet, 2004)

Fiction by series

Essay

• "Splendor in the Mildew", A Place Called Home, edited by Mickey Perlman (St. Martin's Press, 1996)

Progressive novel

• I'd Kill For That, edited by Marcia Talley (St. Martin's, 2004) (With twelve other writers, including Rita Mae Brown, Linda Fairstein, Kathy Reichs, Jennifer Crusie, Anne Perry, and Katherine Neville)

Edited

• New Orleans Noir (Akashic, 2007)