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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2003
  • Latest Book:
    July 2017
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Full Series List in Order

PI Alex Rourke

1 - Winter's End // The Touch of Ghosts (Dec-2003)
2 - The Darkness Inside (Sep-2013)
3 - Burial Ground (Apr-2015)
4 - The Desperate, The Dying, And The Damned (Sep-2013)

Portal of the Gods

1 - Shadow (Oct-2016)
2 - Stone (Nov-2016)
3 - Smoke (Dec-2016)
4 - Ice (Dec-2016)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • As a violent storm rages over the small town of Winter's End, Sheriff Dale Townsend comes upon a chilling scene--a young man, knives in his hands and the body of a woman at his feet.But the enigmatic suspect refuses to answer any questions, and, biza...







  • Seven years ago, he was put away. They thought his victims were all dead. They were wrong.Cody Williams was never charged with a string of child abductions and murders, but everyone knows he was the man behind them. While the remains of some of his v...



  • She's gone. He's lying. Phil Durand is a low level crook. A delivery driver, nothing more. When his girlfriend Evie goes missing three days before they were due to leave town together to start a better, cleaner, life down in Florid...



  • Twelve hours. Two killers. No way out. Troubled private detective Alex Rourke comes to Tennessee mountain country on a wild goose chase, a plea for help telling him people were killed here a year before, their deaths covered up. It...



  • In the foothills of the Andes there’s a relic of a pre-human civilization, the gateway through which the gods themselves supposedly first walked the Earth. A door to other worlds, other times. A portal through which you can take back everything you...



  • A run-down town on the Dominican Republic’s Atlantic coast left behind by the tourist boom was the last resting place of the long-dead Conquistador who supposedly found the mythical ‘Gateway of the Moon’. If Jack Harker can find it and sneak th...



  • After the treachery and revelations in Brazil, Jack and Anya are playing a desperate game of catch up if they’re to reach the Gateway before Viana can open it. If they can survive air-dropping onto the Antarctic ice in search of a buried Nazi facil...






  • With the location of the lost city of Huayacapo discovered at last and the Gateway almost within their grasp, Jack and Anya race to Brazil and the dwindling remains of what used to be deep rainforest, hoping to race their enemies to the portal.But th...



  • Step through and it can give you back everything you've lost, or take away everything you've got.Jack Harker's a washed-up adventure junkie with a knack for languages and getting himself in trouble. But when armed strangers break in...



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    Murph and Rory Caulfield are two regular kids in the small town of Coombs in rural Virginia. When their uncle goes to fetch the local sheriff after finding something bad on his farm, the boys go to check it out for themselves. What they find is more ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Rickards has published 12 books.

John Rickards does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Portal of the Gods, was published in July 2017.

The first book by John Rickards, Winter's End // The Touch of Ghosts, was published in December 2003.

Yes. John Rickards has 2 series.