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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2015
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Mason Collins Novel

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

Books in Order: 10 titles

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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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • “…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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John A. Connell has published 10 books.

John A. Connell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, At Their Own Peril, was published in August 2024.

The first book by John A. Connell, Ruins of War, was published in May 2015.

Yes. John A. Connell has 1 series.