Leonard Levitt received the 2005 non-fiction Edgar Award for Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder. Regan Books, Harper Collins.

In addition, his books include:

• NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest Police Force, St. Martin's Press. (See reviews.)

• The Brothers of Attica, Richard X. Clark, edited by Leonard Levitt

• The Long Way Round - a novel, Saturday Review Press

• Healer: A True Story of Medicine and Murder, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

• An African Season, Simon and Schuster

• "Mbya Dreaming" in Going up Country - a Peace Corps anthology, MacMillan