JF Richards

Arriving Mar 2027

The interval is changing.

After the events at Nabta Playa, Lucas Higgins knows the ancient sites scattered across the world...

JF Richards

JF Richards is the author of The Starwatcher Chronicles, an ongoing five-book mystery-thriller series that begins with The Starless Cipher and continues with The Serpent Gate.

Inspired by ancient ruins, celestial symbolism and forgotten histories, Richards writes suspenseful stories in which modern investigations collide with mysteries buried for centuries. His characters are drawn into dangerous puzzles that stretch across continents and...

Books

The Starless Cipher

Book #1 from the series: The Starwatcher Chronicles

AVAILABLE IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK & AUDIOBOOK

Audiobook digitally narrated by Mia, a Google digital voice.

Lucas Higgins has spent his life studying the past… because it’s safer than the present.

A reserved historian at King’s College London, Lucas believes history should be observed, not lived. Ancient civilisations, lost empires, unanswered...

The Serpent Gate

Book #2 from the series: The Starwatcher Chronicles

AVAILABLE IN EBOOK, PAPERBACK & AUDIOBOOK

Audiobook digitally narrated by Mia, a Google digital voice.

Some doors were never meant to be opened.
Others were meant to be watched.

In the aftermath of a discovery that cost a man his life, historian Lucas Higgins is trying to do the one thing knowledge has never allowed him to do: stop.
Stop...

The Astral Seal

Book #3 from the series: The Starwatcher Chronicles

Currently in production

The interval is changing.

After the events at Nabta Playa, Lucas Higgins knows the ancient sites scattered across the world are connected by something far older and far more complex than anyone imagined. But understanding the network is no longer enough.

Because something has started.

At a remote research station in Svalbard,...

Series

The Starwatcher Chronicles

Across five books, historian Lucas Higgins is drawn into a hidden network of ancient sites, celestial alignments and secrets guarded for centuries. Each discovery reveals another fragment of a pattern written not only in history, but in the stars.

The Starless Cipher, The Serpent Gate, and The Astral Seal

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Praise

Well written and keeps you on your toes. Looking forward to the next book. Thank you.

– Daisy, reader review of The Starless Cipher

Great read, entertained from the first page to the last. Impressive debut novel JF.

– Jeff, Amazon review of The Starless Cipher

Well written and thought out. Good twists and unexpected turns. Not my usual read but still had me hooked. Great first from the author looking forward to more.

– Michelle, Goodreads review of The Starless Cipher