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Madness in the Ruins
(2015)(Ruins of War)
(The first book in the Mason Collins series)A novel by John A Connell
2016 Barry Award for Best First Novel (nominee)
“A must-read series for me.” Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels.
A mutilated body. No witnesses. The only clue, a message, “Those who I have made suffer will become saints and they shall lift me up from hell.”
Winter, 1945. Munich is in ruins, and a savage killer is stalking the city.
U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins enforces the law in the American Zone of Occupation. This post is his last chance to do what he loves most—being a homicide detective.
But he gets more than he’s bargained for when the bodies start piling up, the city devolves into panic, and the army brass start breathing down his neck.
Then the murderer makes him a target. Now it's a high-stakes duel, and to win it Mason must bring into deadly play all that he values: his partner, his career—even his life.
Genre: Historical Mystery
A mutilated body. No witnesses. The only clue, a message, “Those who I have made suffer will become saints and they shall lift me up from hell.”
Winter, 1945. Munich is in ruins, and a savage killer is stalking the city.
U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins enforces the law in the American Zone of Occupation. This post is his last chance to do what he loves most—being a homicide detective.
But he gets more than he’s bargained for when the bodies start piling up, the city devolves into panic, and the army brass start breathing down his neck.
Then the murderer makes him a target. Now it's a high-stakes duel, and to win it Mason must bring into deadly play all that he values: his partner, his career—even his life.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Praise for this book
"A thrilling hunt...gripping and gruesome." - James Becker
"A well-crafted, classic police tale set in postwar 1945 Munich, a city that could double as the living room of hell...Mason's pursuit of the madman takes him through a ruined landscape filled with inhabitants as shattered as the city they live in." - Larry Bond
"...this is going to be a must-read series for me." - Lee Child
"...the best historical crime novel I've read all year. As vivd a sense of time and place as anything by All Furst, a iller as horrifying as any in Thomas Harris, and a central character I'm sure we'll be reading about for years to come." - Scott Phillips
"A well-crafted, classic police tale set in postwar 1945 Munich, a city that could double as the living room of hell...Mason's pursuit of the madman takes him through a ruined landscape filled with inhabitants as shattered as the city they live in." - Larry Bond
"...this is going to be a must-read series for me." - Lee Child
"...the best historical crime novel I've read all year. As vivd a sense of time and place as anything by All Furst, a iller as horrifying as any in Thomas Harris, and a central character I'm sure we'll be reading about for years to come." - Scott Phillips
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