Mystery novels

• Death of an Old Goat (1974) ISBN 0002311984
• A Little Local Murder (1976)
• Death on the High Cs (1977)
• Blood Brotherhood (1977) ISBN 0-8027-5387-6
• Unruly Son (1978) a.k.a. Death of a Mystery Writer
• Posthumous Papers (1979) a.k.a. Death of a Literary Widow
• Death in a Cold Climate (1980)
• Mother's Boys (1981) a.k.a. Death of a Perfect Mother
• Little Victims (1983) a.k.a. School for Murder
• Out of the Blackout (1984)
• A Corpse in a Gilded Cage (1984)
• Disposal of the Living (1985) a.k.a. Fete Fatale ISBN 0-00-231978-0
• Political Suicide (1986)
• The Skeleton in the Grass (1987)
• At Death's Door (1988) ISBN 978-0-00-232195-2
• A City of Strangers (1990) ISBN 978-0-440-20750-4
• A Scandal in Belgravia (1991) ISBN 978-1-890208-16-5
• Masters of the House (1994) ISBN 978-0-380-72511-3
• Touched by the Dead (1999) a.k.a. A Murder in Mayfair ISBN 978-0-00-232684-1
• A Cry From The Dark (2003) ISBN 978-0-7432-5345-1
• Dying Flames (2005) ISBN 978-0-7432-7219-3
• Last Post (2008) ISBN 978-0-7490-8068-6
• Stranger in the Family (2010) ISBN 978-1-4391-7674-0

Charlie Peace novels

• Death and the Chaste Apprentice (1989) ISBN 0684190028
• A Fatal Attachment (1992) ISBN 978-0-380-71998-3
• A Hovering of Vultures (1993) ISBN 978-0-380-77653-5
• The Bad Samaritan (1995) ISBN 978-0-00-232562-2
• No Place of Safety (1997) ISBN 978-0-684-84503-6
• The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori (1998) ISBN 978-0-7432-2427-7
• Unholy Dying (2000) a.k.a. Turbulent Priest ISBN 978-0-7432-0149-0
• The Bones in the Attic (2001) ISBN 978-0-684-87379-4
• The Mistress of Alderley (2002) ISBN 978-0-7490-0686-0
• The Graveyard Position (2004) ISBN 978-0-7432-5346-8
• A Fall from Grace (2006) ISBN 978-0-7432-7220-9
• The Killings on Jubilee Terrace (2009) ISBN 978-1-4165-5942-9
• A Charitable Body (2012) ISBN 978-1-4391-7743-3

Perry Trethowan novels

• Death by Sheer Torture (1981)
• Death and the Princess (1982)
• The Missing Bronte (1983)
• Bodies (1986)
• Death in Purple Prose (1987) a.k.a. The Cherry Blossom Corpse

Short story collections

• Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimely Exits (1989) ISBN 978-0-6841-9088-4
• The Habit of Widowhood (1996) ISBN 978-0-6848-2648-6
• Rogue's Gallery (2011) ISBN 978-0-7490-1017-1

Novels written as Bernard Bastable

• To Die Like a Gentleman (1993)
• Dead, Mr. Mozart (1995) ISBN 978-0-312-11771-9
• Mansion and its Murder (1998) ISBN 978-0-7867-0515-3
• Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart (1998) ISBN 978-0-7515-1806-1

Non-fiction

• Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens (1974)
• A Talent to Deceive: An Appreciation of Agatha Christie (1980)
• A Short History of English Literature (1984) ISBN 978-0-631-19088-2
• Emily Brontë (British Library Writers' lives series) (2000) ISBN 0-7123-4658-9
• A Brontë Encyclopedia (with Louise Barnard) (2007) ISBN 1-4051-5119-6

• Ford, Susan Allen. "Stately Homes of England: Robert Barnard's Country House Mysteries" in CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 3–14.

• Internet Book List
• CWA Award Announcement
• 1984 interview with Robert Barnard by Don Swaim at Wired for Books
• 2006 audio interview with Robert Barnard by Elizabeth Foxwell