An Eye For Murder
- Anthony nomination, Best First
- Winner, Best First, Readers Choice Awards (Love is Murder conference)
A Picture of Guilt
- Finalist, Ben Franklin Award, Mystery/suspense
- Winner, Best Traditional Mystery, Readers Choice Awards (Love is Murder conference)
A Shot to Die For
- Winner, Best Traditional Mystery, Readers Choice Awards (Love is Murder conference)
“House Rules” (Short story in Murder in Vegas anthology)
- Agatha nominee
- Anthony nominee
Chicago Blues Anthology (Editor)
- Stuart Kaminsky story nominated for an Edgar
- Deb Brod story winner of Readers Choice Award (Love is Murder conference)
Easy Innocence
- Winner, Best PI/Police Procedural, Readers Choice Award (Love is Murder conference)
Doubleback
- Chosen as the “Great Lakes Great Read,” Autumn 2009 by Great Lakes Bookseller Association
Set the Night on Fire
- Finalist in Foreword Magazine’s Best Suspense Novel of the Year, 2010
Toxicity
- Winner, Best Suspense Novel 2011 (Love is Murder conference)
High Crimes
- Gold Medal, Foreword Magazine’s Best Suspense Thriller of 2020
A Bitter Veil
- Finalist, 2012 Book of the Year, Chicago Writers Association
- Winner, Best Suspense Novel 2012 (Love is Murder conference)
Havana Lost
- Foreword Magazine Finalist for Best Thriller of the Year — 2013
- “Notable Page-Turner,” Shelf Unbound Magazine Fiction Competition — 2014
- Honorable Mention, 2014 Book of the Year, Chicago Writers Association
Nobody’s Child
- Finalist, 2015 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense
- Finalist, Shamus Awards, Best Indie PI Novel, Mystery/Suspense category
- Finalist in the Fiction: Mystery/Suspense category of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards
- Finalist in Chicago Writers Association Awards — Fiction Category
- Shortlisted for Mystery-Thriller category for Kindle Book Review Award
War, Spies, and Bobby Sox
- Silver Medal, IPPY Award, 2017 (War/Military)
- Finalist, Chicago Writers Association, Book of the Year Award (Indie Fiction)
- Finalist, Foreword Magazine, Book of the Year Awards (War/Military)
A Bend in the River
- Winner, Book of the Year 2021 (Indie Fiction) Chicago Writers Association
- Silver Medal, Foreword Magazine, Book of the Year Awards (War/Military) 2020
- Finalist, Historical Fiction, Next Generation Indies 2020
- Finalist, Historical Fiction, IAN Book of the Year 2020