For his works, Berney has won multiple awards including an Anthony, Barry and Edgar for The Long and Faraway Gone.
With November Road, Berney won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger while also winning additional Anthony and Barry awards.
[7][2] During the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Berney took three months to write a screenplay called Gutshot Straight.
[10][11] Following Gutshot Straight, Berney released Whiplash River in 2012 as a followup book for his Shake Bouchon series.
[13][14] Outside of series, additional books published by Berney were The Long and Faraway Gone in 2015 and November Road in 2018.
[15][16] That year, November Road was planned for a movie adaptation when Lawrence Kasdan bought the book's film rights.
[20] Berney based his book on murders that occurred at a Sirloin Stockade during the late 1970s and the disappearances of two children at the Oklahoma State Fair during the early 1980s.
[21] With November Road, Berney based his book on the conspiracy theory that the New Orleans crime family were behind the assassination of John F.
[35] At the Oklahoma Book Awards, both The Long and Faraway Gone and November Road won the fiction category during the 2010s.