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Back then, he was an Army veteran who'd served as a tunnel rat with the 1st Infantry Division during the Vietnam War. Bosch crawled into North Vietnamese-dug tunnels, collected intelligence, planted C-4 explosives and killed any Viet Cong who crossed his path. LAPD detective Bosch is scarred by his war experiences and the memory of his mother, a Hollywood street prostitute who was murdered when he was Over the character's first decade in the books, he puts together the pieces that solve his mother's cold case and connects with his half-brother Mickey Haller, a hotshot defense attorney with whom he shares a father.

The character has enjoyed a wild ride over 22 Bosch novels, nearly a dozen short stories and guest appearances in five of Connelly's Mickey Haller novels. He's quit the force, come back, been forced into retirement and worked as a part-time investigator for one of Southern California's small-town police forces. The Harry Bosch who lives in the books is 70 years old this year. He probably doesn't have that much time left to work cases in any capacity.

Hollywood was very interested in making Bosch movies back in the s, but nothing ever quite worked out. When Amazon Prime Video decided to give Connelly a chance to tell the Bosch story the way he wanted back in , the author had to do something about the character's age to be able to have the show be a believable one.

But when the case takes a shockingly violent twist, Maddie realizes how much she admires Chandler. Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Season 7 is about women in many ways. But this is more than the usual. Billets finds antigay slurs painted on her personal car, and then a fake X-rated photo with her face circulates on social media.

When she files complaints, men above her in rank turn on her, instead of going after the cops whom she knows are attacking her. At work, Irving is fencing with a new mayor who wants to push him out for her hand-picked chief.

As always, the city of Los Angeles is as vivid a character as the human ones, from the parched neighborhoods of the poor to the lushly landscaped mansions of the rich, all watched over by Bosch from his dreamlike hillside aerie of glass. But while the season was being shot, a deal was made for a spinoff, the first ever from an Amazon original series.

Q: Are you inspired by current events when creating your plots? A: Yes, all the time. In most of my books there is what I call a grain of truth at center. What I mean is that I use a real crime or incident that I have heard about or maybe wrote about as a reporter. Or in the case of Blood Work , the story was inspired by a friend of mine who had a heart transplant. I essentially took his medical and emotional journey and dropped it into a thriller story — with his permission, of course.

How do you know where you will go with him next? A: Not a lot is planned ahead. I usually have a few loose threads dangling from one book that I can then take to the next or even one further down the line. I think that by not planning his future out I have a better chance of keeping him fresh and current and more reflective of the moment. Q: What are your favorite and least favorite things about being a writer? A: The main thing is being able to do what you want to do — and just having to walk down the hallway to do it.

It is not easy. You have to fight to get what you want to say out. So this means that when it is going well, the feeling is almost euphoric. It also means that when it is going bad, the feeling is proportionately opposite. So there are lots of highs and lows. Q: Do you read your reviews, good and bad, and do they make a difference to you? A: I read them, good and bad. Good or bad, it is hard to take a review to heart unless the intelligence of the reviewer is evident to me either in the review itself or by other means such as personal knowledge or association.

Because just like book writers, reviewers are good and bad and bring everything they know and have read to the plate with them.

There are a lot of amateurish reviewers out there who bring personal agendas to their task and there are many who bring thoughtful and unbiased comment. I have had both types praise and slaughter me.

Q: Any plans for a Maddie Bosch series? There has certainly been a seed planted for that. Q: What are your long term goals as a writer? The victim was a Hollywood producer found in the trunk of a car. As Bosch looks into the case, he finds himself in Las Vegas with the crime looking more and more like it was indeed done by the mafia. Just when he thinks he has a handle on the case, something else comes up. Soon, his investigation takes a turn that puts him at odds with his superiors and puts himself in danger.

Because Elias was a high profile black lawyer specializing in cases of racism and police brutality. And, of course, Harry Bosch is given the lead in this minefield of a murder case.

She was killed by a film director during an intimate encounter. The director, however, tried to stage it as a suicide. While Bosch is investigating and being a star witness in the trial, former FBI agent Terry McCaleb comes out of retirement to work a second case. Soon, both cases seem to be related and McCaleb and Bosch find themselves at odds. Apparently, a dog has found a bone, and that bone appears to be human. The investigation brings Bosch to a shallow grave that has been there for more than twenty years.

Although the case is cold, Bosch is like a dog with a bone get it? His investigation also puts him in the path of Julia Brasher, an intriguing rookie cop. Four years ago, a production assistant was murdered on set during a robbery.

After the onset of the war on terror, the LAPD is more concerned with where the money went—was it used to fund terrorist operations? Meanwhile, retired detective Harry Bosch is looking into the death of an old friend unofficially, of course. At first, everything seems to be on the up and up, but Bosch wants to make sure. The dead man, you see, had ties to The Poet investigation. Bosch and Walling work together to catch a devious serial killer. Even if it puts them in danger and in conflict with the FBI.

Things are not the same as he left them. A new chief has been brought in from New York, and Bosch gets assigned to the cold case unit.



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