Writing Honors and Awards

Winner of the 2020 Pinckley Prize for Distinguished Body of Work
"One of the pleasures of Harris's writing is her painstaking attention to historical detail, but what really moves the reader is the way her writing demonstrates pressing issues that endure to the present—the rights of women and minorities and children, immigration, political corruption. Her writing manages to be both historical and very much of the moment."

Who Buries The Dead
starred Booklist review
RT Top Pick

Why Kings Confess
starred Publishers Weekly review
RT Top Pick
Nominee for RT's Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery of 2014

What Darkness Brings
starred Publishers Weekly review

When Maidens Mourn
RT Top Pick
Nominee for RT's Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery of 2012

What Remains Of Heaven
Library Journal starred review
RT Top Pick
Winner of RT's Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery of 2009

Where Serpents Sleep
Publishers Weekly starred Review
Winner of RT's Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery of 2008
RITA finalist

Why Mermaids Sing
starred Library Journal Review
Winner of RT's Reviewers Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery of 2007

When Gods Die
starred Publishers Weekly Review
starred Kirkus Review
starred Library Journal Review

What Angels Fear
starred Library Journal Review

Beyond Sunrise
starred Publishers Weekly review
PW Editors' Pick for May 2003
Romantic Times Top Pick

Midnight Confessions
starred Publishers Weekly review
Romantic Times Top Pick
Romantic Times award, Best American Historical

Whispers of Heaven
Romantic Times Top Pick
Romantic Times award for Best British Isles Historical

The Bequest
RWA Rita Finalist, Best Long Historical

Night in Eden
One of Amazon.com's Top Ten Romances for 1997
One of Romantic Times' "200 All Time Favorite Romances"
Romantic Times award, Best First Book