John A. Connell

A Mason Collins Novel

1 - Ruins of War (May-2015)
2 - Spoils of Victory (Feb-2016)

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  Ruins of War
  

  • May-2015
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Mason Collins Novel - 1
  

  A chilling novel of murder and madness in post-World War II Germany… Winter 1945. Seven months after the Nazi defeat, Munich is in ruins. Mason Collins -- a former Chicago homicide detective, U.S. soldier, and prisoner of war -- is now a U.S. Ar...

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  Spoils of Victory
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Mason Collins Novel - 2
  

  From the author of Ruins of War comes an electrifying novel featuring U.S. Army criminal investigator Mason Collins, set in the chaos of post-World War II Germany. When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the h...

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  Bones of the Innocent
  

  • Jun-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Mason Collins grapples with secrets and murder as he races against time to save the lives of abducted teenagers in a case a twisted as the streets of Tangier’s medina.
  

  Summer, 1946. Just as assassins from a shadowy organization close i...

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  Haven of Vipers
  

  • Jul-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  Mason Collins investigates a series of brutal murders in a case that will take him from a Hollywood-style nightclub and a speeding train, to the icy slopes of the Bavarian Alps.

  When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town of Garmisch-Part...

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  Madness in the Ruins
  

  • Jul-2019
  • / Mystery
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  From the ashes of World War II, a new monster rises in Munich…

  Munich, 1945. Mason Collins survived betrayal in the Chicago PD and the horrors of life in a Nazi POW camp. Now as the Chief Warrant Officer of the American Sector, he’s de...

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  To Kill A Devil
  

  • Jan-2020
  • / Historical
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  “…may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”  -- Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
  

  How far would you go to save the ones you love? For Mason, he’ll walk into the lion’s den to wreak as much...

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  Good Night, Sweet Daddy-O
  

  • May-2020
  • / Thriller
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  1958 San FranciscoStruggling jazz musician and Beat generation youth, Frank Valentine, suffers a midnight beating, leaving his left hand paralyzed. Jobless, penniless, and desperate, he agrees to join his best friend, George, and three other buddies ...

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  Where the Wicked Tread
  

  • Feb-2021
  • / Thriller
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  It is 1947. Mason is on the hunt for the man behind his worst nightmares, the Gestapo commander who, during the war, executed a little girl Mason had sworn to protect. The image of her lifeless body in the blood-stained snow haunts him nightly.Now he...

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  UPON A BLOODSTAINED LAND
  

  • Apr-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  Former U.S. Army detective Mason Collins accompanies a group of Jewish refugees on board an illegal ship bound for Palestine. It is April 1947, a little over a year before the formation of the State of Israel, and hostilities in the region are reachi...

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  At Their Own Peril
  

  • Aug-2024
  • / Historical Mystery
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  It is November 1947, and Mason and Laura are struggling to adapt to domestic life after years of harrowing adventures and the trauma they carried home. That fragile balance between a troubled past and a hopeful future is shattered when Mason's best f...

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