"years old and a veteran of the first Gulf War in 1991, where he was part of a Special Forces team that cleared tunnels. He has now been a police officer for twenty years with a one-year exception when he re-upped with the Army after 9/11, as many LAPD officers did. He came back to the force after serving in Afghanistan and again encountering tunnel warfare."" Harry Bosch Detective Hieronymus ""Harry"" Bosch (pronounced ""He-ron-ee-mus"" ""Bosh"") is a fictional character created by American author Michael Connelly. Bosch debuted as the lead character in the 1992 novel ""The Black Echo"", the first"
"The Black Box (novel) The Black Box is the 25th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the sixteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book was published on 26 November 2012, ""in part to honor the 20th anniversary of the character"". Bosch tackles a 20-year-old cold case which took place during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. A white photojournalist is found killed near a burned-out store. The case is reopened when Harry matches a shell casing he discovered at the scene to three other murders. In his personal life, Harry's daughter Maddie says she"
"The Wrong Side of Goodbye The Wrong Side Of Goodbye is the 29th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the nineteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. It was published in 2016. This novel finds semi-retired Harry Bosch with two investigations. As a private detective he is summoned by billionaire Whitney Vance. The elderly, never-married Vance wants Bosch to track down an old girlfriend to know if he has an heir to whom he can leave his fortune. As a volunteer part-time officer for San Fernando, Bosch is involved in the search for a serial"
"The Burning Room The Burning Room is the 27th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the seventeenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company on November 3, 2014. Harry Bosch and his rookie partner Lucia Soto are assigned the case of Orlando Merced, a mariachi performer who was shot in a crowded Los Angeles square and was paralyzed from the waist down. The shooter was never found, and Merced survived for ten years before dying from complications from his wounds. When the bullet is finally removed from"
"Connelly, his ""real"" job is to write about Bosch, and his purpose in bringing McCaleb and Bosch together in ""A Darkness More Than Night"" was to use McCaleb as a tool to look at Bosch from another perspective and keep the character interesting. Every character in the list below, with one exception, has appeared in a Harry Bosch book. All of Michael Connelly's novels occur in the same fictional universe and character crossovers are common. Each of these characters has appeared in at least two novels of Connelly's. Michael Connelly Michael Connelly (born July 21, 1956) is an American author"
"Harry Bosch series written by Michael Connelly and the Shane Scully series written by Stephen J. Cannell. Parker Center and its closure is also mentioned in the Joseph Wambaugh novel ""Hollywood Hills"". Perhaps the most popular, and most filmed/photographed, example is the 1983 movie Blue Thunder. O.J. Simpson was questioned by police at Parker Center following the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in 1994. Parker Center Parker Center was the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department from 1954 until October 2009 and is located in downtown LA at 150 N. Los Angeles St. Often called ""The"
"Bosch (TV series) Bosch is an American police procedural web television series produced by Amazon Studios and Fabrik Entertainment. It stars Titus Welliver as Los Angeles Police detective Harry Bosch. The show was developed for Amazon by Eric Overmyer and the first season takes its inspiration from three of Michael Connelly’s novels: ""City of Bones"", ""Echo Park"", and ""The Concrete Blonde"". It was, together with ""The After"", one of two drama pilots that Amazon streamed online in early 2014, and viewers offered their opinions about the pilot before the studio decided whether to place a series order. The show was"
"captain captive. He then has to find and rescue Bella Lourdes, Harry Bosch's cop partner whom Dockweiler had abducted and imprisoned. The Wrong Side of Goodbye The Wrong Side Of Goodbye is the 29th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the nineteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. It was published in 2016. This novel finds semi-retired Harry Bosch with two investigations. As a private detective he is summoned by billionaire Whitney Vance. The elderly, never-married Vance wants Bosch to track down an old girlfriend to know if he has an heir to whom he"
"wants to become a member of the LAPD, after having expressed an interest in a law enforcement career in ""The Drop"". The book placed at #2 on the ""Chronicle"" bestseller list for San Francisco Bay Area booksellers, in December 2012. In 2012, ""The Black Box"" won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000. The Black Box (novel) The Black Box is the 25th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the sixteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book was published on 26 November 2012, ""in part"
"murdering his wife Mitzi and her German lover. Haller secures this ""franchise"" case, persuading the mogul to keep him on as counsel by promising not to seek a postponement of the trial, which is due to start in nine days. Meanwhile, maverick LAPD detective Harry Bosch, the main character in several earlier novels written by Connelly, is investigating Vincent's murder. Bosch, warning that Vincent's killer may come after Haller next, persuades the reluctant lawyer to cooperate in the ongoing murder investigation. Meanwhile, Haller shakes off the rust, and lingering self-doubts, as he prepares for the double-murder trial. Among the cases"
"Lost Light Lost Light is the ninth novel in Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series. It is the first Bosch novel to be narrated in first person; all prior Bosch novels had utilized an omniscient third-person style. ""Lost Light"" is the first novel set after Bosch retires from the LAPD at the end of the prior story. Having received his private investigator's license, Bosch investigates an old case concerning the murder of a production assistant on the set of a film. The case leads him back into contact with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish, who is now a professional poker player in"
"""Dirty"" Harry Callahan -- the police officer played in a series of films by Clint Eastwood. Besides the Connelly series, Harry Bosch has made cameos in several other authors' books. Bosch has appeared in books by Paula Woods, Joe Gores, and Robert Crais. Likewise, during an October 16, 2008 book-signing in San Mateo, California, to promote ""The Brass Verdict"", Michael Connelly informed the audience that Bosch also appeared in a cameo without identification in Connelly's novel ""Chasing the Dime"". With two exceptions the Bosch novels are narrated in third-person, initially focused entirely on Bosch's point of view. Later novels include"
"Unit. Ultimately, he is caught breaking into the Robbery Homicide Division offices as part of the Merced investigation and is placed on indefinite suspension pending an investigation. With less than a year until his retirement, he leaves Open-Unsolved knowing that he may never return. The Burning Room The Burning Room is the 27th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the seventeenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. The book was published by Little, Brown and Company on November 3, 2014. Harry Bosch and his rookie partner Lucia Soto are assigned the case of Orlando Merced,"
"down the victim. As a result, Bosch heads to Hong Kong in an effort to rescue her. The name of the most populated region of Hong Kong, Kowloon, means ""nine dragons"" in English. Harry Bosch is still back in homicide (no closer duty for him) and during a slow night he is asked to investigate a shooting in a ""rougher"" section of L.A. Harry and his partner (Detective Ignacio Ferras) grudgingly take the assignment that would normally be handled by a gang-related crimes unit, and learn that a Chinese-American convenience store owner was murdered behind his own counter. The case"
"The Black Echo The Black Echo is the 1992 début novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. This is the first of Connelly's Bosch series. The book won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for ""Best First Novel"" in 1992. The novel centers on Harry Bosch, a Vietnam veteran who served as a ""tunnel rat"" (nicknamed Hari Kari Bosch), with the 1st Infantry Division — a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the maze of tunnels used as barracks, hospitals, and on some occasions, morgues, by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. After the war Bosch"
"of Bones"", was the eighth Bosch novel, and the other, ""Chasing the Dime"", was a non-series novel. In 2001, Connelly left California for Tampa Bay, Florida, together with his wife and daughter, so that both he and his wife could be closer to their families. His novels still took place in Los Angeles. In 2003, another Bosch novel, ""Lost Light"", was published. With this book, a CD was released, ""Dark Sacred Night, the Music of Harry Bosch"", featuring some of the jazz music Bosch listens to. Connelly says he prefers listening to rock and roll, jazz, and blues. While writing"
"The Drop (Connelly novel) The Drop is the 24th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the fifteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective Harry Bosch. The book was published on 22 November 2011. The novel was referenced in an October 2010 interview, in which Connelly indicated that he'd like to release ""'bookend' novels next year, the second one a Bosch book"". Connelly's first novel of 2011 was the Mickey Haller novel ""The Fifth Witness"". The plot finds Bosch juggling two investigations: one an old cold-case murder that was reactivated by a new lead from DNA evidence,"
"pier that had been discovered by Bosch as a result of the police surveillance activities. Jessup's death ends the search for Melissa Landy's killer, but leaves the prosecution team with a host of unanswered legal and moral questions. The Reversal The Reversal is the 22nd novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the third major appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael ""Mickey"" Haller. Connelly introduced Haller in his bestselling 2005 novel ""The Lincoln Lawyer"" and then paired him with LAPD detective Harry Bosch, his half-brother, in 2008's ""The Brass Verdict"". In 2009's ""9 Dragons"", Haller was a"
"and the other the death of a politically-connected power broker in a fall from a hotel balcony. The book was mentioned in a February 2011 interview, where Connelly explained that Bosch would be ""handling two cases at once, a cold case that turns hot and the politically charged investigation into the death of a city councilman's son. The city councilman happens to be Harry's old nemesis, Irvin Irving."" Bosch and his partner David Chu are working in the Open-Unsolved unit of the LAPD's homicide squad handling cold cases. Based on a new analysis of old physical evidence, they are assigned"
"For example, in ""City of Bones"", Detective Bosch investigates the murder of an 11-year-old boy. This was written during Connelly's early years as a father of a daughter, and it hit close to home. According to Connelly, he didn't mean to write about the biggest fear of his life; it just came out that way. Detective Bosch's life usually changes in harmony with Connelly's own life. When Connelly moved 3,000 miles across the country from Florida, Bosch had some life-changing experiences that sent him in a new direction in the book written at that time, ""City of Bones"". According to"
"Nine Dragons (novel) Nine Dragons is the 14th novel in the Harry Bosch series and the 22nd book (21st novel) by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was published in the U.K. and Ireland on October 1, 2009, and worldwide on October 13, 2009. The novel is partly set in Hong Kong, where Bosch's daughter Maddie and ex-wife Eleanor Wish live. The main plot involves Maddie being kidnapped by a Chinese Triad (crime syndicate), which Bosch believes is due to his investigation of an L.A. murder, in which his primary suspect is a member of a triad that was shaking"
"Public Library Foundation. The bidding ran until 13 March 2011, at which time, after 65 bids, the auction closed at $2,917.00. The name of the winner has not been disclosed. The Drop (Connelly novel) The Drop is the 24th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the fifteenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detective Harry Bosch. The book was published on 22 November 2011. The novel was referenced in an October 2010 interview, in which Connelly indicated that he'd like to release ""'bookend' novels next year, the second one a Bosch book"". Connelly's first novel of 2011"
"The Reversal The Reversal is the 22nd novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the third major appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael ""Mickey"" Haller. Connelly introduced Haller in his bestselling 2005 novel ""The Lincoln Lawyer"" and then paired him with LAPD detective Harry Bosch, his half-brother, in 2008's ""The Brass Verdict"". In 2009's ""9 Dragons"", Haller was a secondary character as Bosch's personal lawyer. ""The Reversal"" was published in the United States on October 5, 2010. Mickey Haller, who has become increasingly frustrated in his role as a defense lawyer, agrees to undertake the prosecution role"
"into a real kidnapping, making the deal with the Triad from which Harry saved her. Maddie blames herself for the deaths that followed. Harry consoles her, promising to show her how they can make up for their mistakes. Nine Dragons (novel) Nine Dragons is the 14th novel in the Harry Bosch series and the 22nd book (21st novel) by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was published in the U.K. and Ireland on October 1, 2009, and worldwide on October 13, 2009. The novel is partly set in Hong Kong, where Bosch's daughter Maddie and ex-wife Eleanor Wish live. The"
"a banner at the police station that reads ""Welcome Back Thelma!"", an obvious reference to the parole officer's injuries. The injured parole officer appears again in ""The Closers"" (2005) during one of Bosch's investigations, and Bosch recognizes Cassie's mugshot in a newspaper article in her cubicle. Void Moon Void Moon is the ninth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was released in the UK in 2000 and was the third of Connelly's books not to follow the character Harry Bosch. It was also his first novel to feature a female protagonist, Cassidy ""Cassie"" Black, and a protagonist who"
"First Novel"" and was also nominated for the Anthony Award in the same category and the Dilys Award for ""Best Novel"". The Black Echo The Black Echo is the 1992 début novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. This is the first of Connelly's Bosch series. The book won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for ""Best First Novel"" in 1992. The novel centers on Harry Bosch, a Vietnam veteran who served as a ""tunnel rat"" (nicknamed Hari Kari Bosch), with the 1st Infantry Division — a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the maze of"
"2011. The next Bosch novel was ""The Black Box"" (2012). Connelly's subsequent novel, a legal thriller, was a return to Haller: ""The Gods of Guilt"" (2013). His next book returned to Bosch in ""The Burning Room"" (2014), and then Connelly used Haller as a main supporting character in the Bosch novels ""The Crossing"" (2015) and ""The Wrong Side of Goodbye"" (2016). Connelly has won nearly every major award given to mystery writers, including the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Award, ""Los Angeles Times"" Best Mystery/Thriller Award, Shamus Award, Dilys Award, Nero Award, Barry Award, Audie Award, Ridley Award, Maltese Falcon"
"previous books and letting them play a part in books written five or six years after first being introduced. Connelly went on to write three more novels about Detective Bosch — ""The Black Ice"" (1993), ""The Concrete Blonde"" (1994), and ""The Last Coyote"" (1995) — before quitting his job as a reporter to write full-time. Harry Bosch and Connelly received a good deal of publicity in 1994, when President Bill Clinton came out of a bookstore carrying a copy of ""The Concrete Blonde"" in front of the waiting cameras. A meeting was set up between the two at the Los"
"defense attorney Mickey Haller, Bosch's half-brother. The book was made into a film in 2011, starring Matthew McConaughey as Haller. After releasing ""Crime Beat"" (2006), a non-fiction book about Connelly's experiences as a crime reporter, Connelly went back to Bosch with ""Echo Park"" (2006). This book sets its opening scene in the High Tower Apartment that Connelly rented and wrote from. His next Bosch story, ""The Overlook"", was originally published as a multi-part series in the ""New York Times Magazine"". After some editing, it was published as a novel in 2007. In October 2008, Connelly wrote ""The Brass Verdict"", which"
"of right and wrong, coupled with little regard for his career. At the end of ""The Overlook"", Connelly states this trait can be described in a single word: ""relentless"". He also uses this word in ""Lost Light"", describing jazz, and implying reference to his own work and personality. Bosch has a half-brother, Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles attorney who makes his first appearance in the novel ""The Lincoln Lawyer"", although he briefly appears in a flashback in ""The Black Ice"" as a boy. Haller is the legitimate son of the attorney who fathered Bosch. In the second Mickey Haller novel,"
"by Bosch's nemesis Irvin Irving to cover up the ties of a ranking officer's son with a neo-Nazi group. Most striking of all, in developments that give this novel astonishing moral force, the pair explore the ""ripples"" of the long-ago crime, how it has destroyed the young girl's family—leaving the mother trapped in the past and plunging the father into a nightmare of homelessness and alcoholism—and how it drives Rider, and especially Bosch, into a deeper understanding of their own purposes in life. Harry Bosch: Harry Bosch is the lead detective in the story. Bosch returns to LAPD after a"
"he listens exclusively to instrumental jazz, though, because it does not have intrusive vocals, and because the improvisational playing inspires his writing. ""The Narrows"", published in 2004, was a sequel to ""The Poet"" but featured Bosch instead of McEvoy. Together with this book, a DVD was released called ""Blue Neon Night: Michael Connelly's Los Angeles"", in which film Connelly presents some of the places in Los Angeles that are frequently featured in his books. ""The Closers"", published in May 2005, was the 11th Bosch novel. It was followed by ""The Lincoln Lawyer"" in October, Connelly's first legal novel; it features"
"Void Moon Void Moon is the ninth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was released in the UK in 2000 and was the third of Connelly's books not to follow the character Harry Bosch. It was also his first novel to feature a female protagonist, Cassidy ""Cassie"" Black, and a protagonist who is a criminal instead of an investigator of criminals. Cassie Black is an ex-convict who works at a Porsche dealership. She had served five years in prison for conspiring with her previous partner-in-crime, Max Freeling, to steal the winnings of casino visitors while they are asleep."