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The First Shot (Lieutenant Kane - Dedicated to Death Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

by E.H. Reinhard (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 out of 5 stars 7,637
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The First Shot: Book One in The Lieutenant Kane Dedicated to Death Series

For Tampa homicide lieutenant Carl Kane, death is his life. If a single award existed for sinking himself into his work, he’d have two.

But the latest crime scene he’s called to, an old abandoned factory, leaves him with more bodies than leads. Three drug dealers are found shot to death—not an uncommon sight in the least. The problem lies with the pair of middle-aged women—bound, gagged, and executed—found at the same location.

Before he can sink his teeth into the initial investigation, Kane is called out to another multiple homicide. He comes up with only more questions when the second group of murders appears connected to the first.

As the lieutenant tracks down the few leads, he begins to get a clearer picture of those he seeks. That picture quickly turns crystal clear when Kane finds himself face-to-face with someone that “armed and dangerous” doesn’t even begin to describe.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N9GDE6Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (December 10, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 10, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1727 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
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E.H. Reinhard

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E.H. Reinhard is the author of over thirty novels in the crime fiction and police procedural genres. Residing in sunny Tampa Florida, when not putting pen to paper, or more accurately, keys to keyboard writing his next novel, Reinhard is an avid fisherman and a general enjoyer of everything outdoors. To see what he's been up to lately, you can find him on social media, or can contact him directly using the contact form at: http://ehreinhard.com.

Find him on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/ehreinhardauthor/

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Doug in AZ
5.0 out of 5 stars I am now hooked on this series! OUTSTANDING!
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2017
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I tried this book out. I usually don't read detective novels unless they have like a vampire or something. But I am glad I read this book. I'm deep into the third of the series and this is awesome. I'm not going to give any spoilers, and remember I usually don't read procedural-basrd detective novels, but this was outstanding. The level of detail and the balance between making us feel like part of the team as opposed to having to get a degree in criminology to understand what's going on, was excellent. It was technical enough for me to dig my teeth in and the logic behind every action was outstanding I thoroughly enjoyed it. Keep bringing the rest of the series as well, I think they may need to be read in order. But so far they've been able to fairly well stand on their own. I can usually figure out what's going on early. I know, i am that annoying guy. But face it a lot of detective novels are written by the most talented folks. This guy has Raw Talent. Sometimes you think he's showing you what's going on, you think you know what the real thing is, and then the logic brought forth by the detectives shows you had really no idea. And that's refreshing. In a lot of these books, he tells you exactly what's going on from the perspective of people who are doing naughty things. But being able to see the main characters ability to pull out the exact truth with science and evidence that a Layman can understand, was truly a masterstroke to make this accessible to anyone. If you enjoy action, procedure, feeling part of the team, and seeing the inside of an insane mind, this is for you.
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Kevin G. Chapman, Author
4.0 out of 5 stars Fast-paced thriller with great characters
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2018
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EH Reinhard’s “The First Shot” is the first book in a series featuring Lieutenant Carl Kane of the Tampa Police Department. I had already read the second book in this series and went back to read book #1 and was not disappointed. Kane is a hard-boiled detective without a love interest but with an assortment of male co-stars who provide a colorful group of characters who populate a story with an intricate plot told from the perspective of both the investigating police and also the criminals. The story involves a series of robberies and murders that don’t seem to be related to each other, but the connections become clear and the police eventually zero in on the perpetrators.
At times the plot arc is a bit too obvious, since the reader is privy to the actions of the criminals all along, and a few times the coincidental overlap between the investigation and the actions of the principle killer are a bit too convenient, but the story still turns out to be a page-turner and you want to keep reading to find out what’s going to happen. There is a bunch of action at the end in the shoot-em-up finale, and the concluding confession by the killer is both unnecessary and out of character, but these are nits for a book that definitely is worth the read.
Knowing that book #2 in the series is also well worth the read, I am excited about moving forward to the rest of the series and can certainly recommend them.
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Trikergal
3.0 out of 5 stars He said, I said, I sat down, I stood up, I poured some coffee, took a sip, took it to my desk and sat down, etc, etc, etc.
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2024
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The storyline was quite good but the overkill of pointless descriptions really detracted from it. I must have skipped over 25 % of the book. It seemed as thoughl the multitude of descriptions were used to lengthen the book rather than for clarification of the story. It was just annoying. For that reason alone, I will not be reading another book by this author.
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Dougal
5.0 out of 5 stars Has its moments...
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2017
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It’s remarked that real life activity in spying or detective work is nothing like how it is portrayed in cinema or television, where the leads wear designer clothing, drive exotic cars, and have to fight off the constant attention of beautiful women as well as that of megalomaniac bad guys intent on world domination and media headlines. It’s commonly pointed out that in ‘real life’ such work is most decidedly unglamorous tedium incarnate; slow mundane methodical investigation where the cheap-suited hero’s greatest working asset is not his gun but his telephone. So common, in fact, that even characters in television tell other television characters that “It’s not like in the movies…”

Perhaps this is what Mr. Reinhard had in mind with his Florida homicide detective Lieutenant Kane. In this book Kane seems to spend the great majority of his time telling other characters to call him when they have information on a lead, or taking their number so he can call them, leaving messages on answering machines, or telling his captain who’s he’s given his latest lead to and what their phone numbers are. He details their whereabouts, who’s working what shift, did they or did they not get prints/ballistics/autopsy results and when do they expect to have them and – of course – when can he expect them to call him. He keeps constant track of when the coroner is arriving (and leaving), when forensics will be finished, and what the names and contact information is for a plethora of patrol cops, witnesses, and the latest known addresses and previous violation sheets for the ever-mounting list of dead victims. And there’s lots of them.

As insight into the life of a non-cinematic style of detective, it is illuminating. Yes, it gives a feel for what it must be like to be a working detective. It’s a stripped down, no chrome, unmarked dark sedan cop car of a story.

There are some folksy touches. His partner’s well-meaning wife keeps pestering him with some friend she’s trying to set him up with (like we haven’t heard that one before). He has a very large and ill-behaved cat. On the plus side, at least he’s not subject to constant depression over his ex-wife, battling alcoholism, or desperate to quit smoking and/or temper his addiction to fast food. You know, the usual cop tropes.

The bad guys, particularly the crew’s leader, are pretty bad indeed. They shoot first and it never occurs to them to ask questions. The body count is substantial and the murderous action, when it ensues, is bloody and gritty. There’s a certain ordinary dullness to some of these creeps that, peculiarly, reinforces their believability.

While I’m gratified to see Kane isn’t possessed with hyper martial arts skills, Olympian athletic ability, and deductive skills worthy of Holmes or Poirot, it would’ve been nice to have the drama quotient ramped up a wee bit, even if not strictly aligned with the procedural slant of this story.

Don’t get me wrong. I did like it. Every author has their style and this was engaging enough that I really wanted to see how it would all wrap up. I just don’t think this variation of crime procedural is quite to my taste, at least not for another book. Your mileage may vary.

Update 7-16-20:
Hey... I've just done something that reviewers (in my experience in another life at any rate) almost never do. They change their mind! Have upgraded this to Five Stars. Yes, Virginia, it can happen.

I've just recently reread 'The First Shot' and have mellowed into a completely different take of it. I confess (oooh) it took a while to find the groove... but I liked it.

I got into this rather dry (except for some of the repartee between Kane and other characters) procedural and now see it as a sort of an up-to-date cousin to a buddy, Sgt. Joe Friday. Rather than the Hollywood nonsense which have the leads killing perps by the dozens each day, breaking scores of laws (big ones!) before lunch, and fighting off legions of uber hotties, you get a feel for what the plain hard slog of detective work is actually like. The big screen version of such is undeniably entertaining, but this enthralls.

And perhaps not so dry. As I intimated in my earlier review, it portrays some very graphic violence and, personally, that’s fine with me. A book’s bad guys should be BAD guys.

I’ve since finished book 2 of the 'Dedicated To Death' series and about to start book 3. Yes, I'm now a Reinhard convert. If what I’ve commented on interests you, I do think you’ll like it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Dragnet
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2023
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Reading this reminded me of the original Dragnet TV series. The pacing, the conversations, just a feeling. Ultimately this was a nice start to a series, and I’ll be on the lookout for book two.
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Ronald N D
5.0 out of 5 stars One fast action packed police thriller that'll have you tied in knots. FAR AND AWAY ONE OF THE BEST I'VE READ IN YEARS.
Reviewed in Canada on September 24, 2017
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I've been a huge fan of police murder/thrillers for years now, and this is exactly the kind of book I'm always referring too. Lt. Kane, our lead, is a cop's cop, and is a perfect foil for all that is about to happen. Murder, mayhem, scant clues, blood, gore, and good sleuthing will have you totally engrossed in this fast moving yarn, with victims piling up without tie-ins or reason. But finally a break and the real work starts. This is one expertly written book, and E. H. Reinhard is to be commended big time for both the story line itself, and the format it's presented in. Using both first and third person formats he draws you relentlessly into the action with a big emphasis on the killer/robbers activities with the cops going in circles until a remote happening starts to tie events together. If you're looking for a superlative murder mystery cop action thriller with sustained logic and just downright good sense, look no further - you're here. By the way, I was particularly taken by the way dialogue and reasoning was presented emphasising the close working relationship of the police vs the frenetic and spontaneously fractured connivings of the felons.
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Sudipta Panda
3.0 out of 5 stars No mystery
Reviewed in India on September 19, 2017
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Was predictable, neither who done it nor how it was done. Needed more mystery and twists to make it 5 star
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Susan Pearson
3.0 out of 5 stars Murder most foul.
Reviewed in Australia on December 12, 2022
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A good book but far too much mindless violence. The depths of depravity some men sink too is beyond thinking about. Not my favourite ebook from this author.
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MR R N WREFORD
5.0 out of 5 stars First rate thriller
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2017
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I have never read a book with such continuous fast paced action before, the reader really gets tired because there was no way I was going to put this book down. The good guy incorporates everything a determined detective should and the main bad guy is like a one man special forces team, except he is totally evil and coldblooded. Excellent entertainment.
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🐭 Miki101
4.0 out of 5 stars The right thriller for those who like their mysteries HARD-BOILED - because...
Reviewed in Italy on February 16, 2017
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... the life and work of murder-squad Lieutenant Carl Cane in Tampa/Florida is full of those.
The book is very well written and with the chapters change view of the main actors, too. But at a certain point my mind went numb. Because too much is simply too much...
There is a murder-spree that gives Lt. Kane and his superiors a lot to think about.
One drug-dealer dead - good for society and innocents. Three drug-dealers dead in a warehouse- OK, there is a turf war going on. But two elderly women executed in cold blood in the street behind that warehouse and two of them mothers of the killed drug-dealers? What the heck is going on there? The reader always - right from the beginning - knows everything. The motivations, the thoughts and the plans of the men who kill so easily. The is a system behind those murders. And more bodies will follow...
To tell more would spoil the reading. Which is a good one - if You like this kind of stories. The killings are often described in gruesome details, and those with a lot of compassion may be able to put themselves into the victim's place - and feel a lot of their fear before dying. Because there is absolutely NO compassion in the abnormally twisted mind of the gang-leader. And then more bodies pile up and at a certain point the mind goes numb in front of all that shooting, stabbing, shooting again...
When at the very end the organizer behind all those deadly crimes will tell his side of the story, there may be left a great void in the mind of a normal reader. I lack the words to describe a nature so ... unnatural, it practically hurts thinking too much about it.
I will take my time to read the second book in this series: The Ninth Life (Lieutenant Kane - Dedicated to Death Series Book 2) (English Edition). Because I want to calm my little self a bit down, maybe with reading a good old Scandinavian crime story. After that, maybe I will be ready for a second dose of Tampa's hard-boiled murders...
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