63 Facts About Harry Bosch

Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is a fictional character created by American author Michael Connelly.

Harry Bosch, as he is commonly known by his associates, is a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Harry Bosch was named after the 15th-century Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch.

Harry Bosch's mother was a prostitute in Hollywood who was murdered on October 28,1961, when Harry Bosch was 11 years old.

Harry Bosch spent his youth in various orphanages and youth halls, and with the occasional foster family.

When he learned of his mother's murder, Harry Bosch, then living at a youth hall, dove to the bottom of a pool, screamed until he ran out of air, and then swam back to the surface.

Harry Bosch joined the United States Army at age 17, after getting his foster father to sign the enlistment papers.

Harry Bosch was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal which can briefly be seen in Bosch season four episode 10, kept in a small wooden box alongside his passport and a LAPD Marksmanship Badge.

In both the books and the television show, Harry Bosch has a daughter named Madeline "Maddie" Harry Bosch with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish, a former FBI agent.

Harry Bosch saw his daughter in person only twice a year.

At one point, Harry Bosch left the LAPD and worked as a private investigator for three years.

Harry Bosch left retirement and returned to the LAPD at the conclusion of The Narrows.

Harry Bosch transferred out of Open-Unsolved and into Homicide Special during the time between Echo Park and The Overlook.

Harry Bosch remained partnered with Rider until her transfer to the Chief's office after being shot during Echo Park.

Harry Bosch is partnered with Chu in The Reversal, which is told from the perspectives of both him and Mickey Haller, who is appointed Special Prosecutor against a man accused of murder of a child given a retrial.

Not a stranger to being second-guessed, Harry Bosch gets investigated by the LAPD's IAD multiple times and is always cleared.

Harry Bosch is forced to take retirement even though the disciplinary case against him is eventually dropped.

Harry Bosch's work helps Haller clear an innocent man who was wrongfully prosecuted for a crime that he did not commit.

Harry Bosch continues to work as a private investigator in The Wrong Side of Goodbye.

Harry Bosch investigates the matter of locating the heir to the estate of a dying billionaire.

Harry Bosch accepts a position as a reserve officer working for the city of San Fernando, California Police Department.

In Two Kinds of Truth, Harry Bosch continues to work as a Detective for the SFPD.

Harry Bosch helps clear a double homicide case involving the trafficking of illegal prescription painkilling pharmaceuticals.

Harry Bosch clears his name of wrongdoing in an old LAPD homicide case of his.

Dark Sacred Night sees Harry Bosch pushed to his personal and professional limits.

Harry Bosch takes her into his home to help rehabilitate her, promising to investigate the unsolved murder of her daughter Daisy.

Meanwhile, Harry Bosch investigates the cold case murder of a gangster in San Fernando which spirals out of control when a confidential informant is murdered.

Harry Bosch accepts responsibility to protect Bella Lourdes, knowing that it will cost him a job.

Harry Bosch ultimately relents and alerts the LAPD, but faces an uncertain future.

Harry Bosch is informed that he has contracted chronic myeloid leukemia from his exposure to radiation in The Overlook, and has been working as the investigator for his half brother .

Harry Bosch ultimately lets the killer go to save Ballard, but manages to find the killer's exit strategy.

Meanwhile, after the death of his former partner, who was his mentor when he first became a detective, Harry Bosch is given a murder book by his partner's widow, which he took home after retirement.

Harry Bosch helps with the case, as well as another one involving two rapists.

In Desert Star, Harry Bosch is readmitted to the LAPD following Ballard being given permission to lead a new Open-Unsolved Unit from a city councilman whose sister's murder is still unsolved.

Harry Bosch is told by Ballard that if he works the case of the councilman's sister, he will be allowed to work a nine-year old case that has eluded him for years, the murder of a family of four, in which he believed the suspect was guilty but was unable to prove anything.

Harry Bosch accepts, and quickly finds DNA from the sister's case that leads to another unsolved murder committed by the same killer.

Harry Bosch is blamed for this, despite DNA evidence proving the killer guilty.

Harry Bosch's house is broken into during the investigation and he is forced to wonder if he really just forgot something due to the drug trial.

Harry Bosch follows the female deputy, who he has revealed was following the victim the night of the murder, and witnesses her being killed by a man associated with the gang.

Harry Bosch pursues the killer, but ends up losing him, though the information he provides, and the case Haller argues, is enough to get the woman's sentence overturned.

Harry Bosch is contacted by Ballard when her badge is stolen, and agrees to help her get it back.

Harry Bosch lived in a cantilevered house at 7203 Woodrow Wilson Drive in the Hollywood Hills.

Harry Bosch's house was later damaged during the Northridge earthquake, shortly before the book The Last Coyote.

Harry Bosch has an active love life, with usually one love interest per book.

Harry Bosch has a daughter, Madeline, who, as of 9 Dragons, is living with him.

Harry Bosch had formerly lived with her mother, Harry's ex-wife Eleanor Wish.

Recent stories find Harry Bosch linked in a close relationship with FBI agent Rachel Walling.

Walling notes in The Scarecrow that her relationship with Harry Bosch broke up in part because Harry Bosch was still in love with Eleanor Wish.

Harry Bosch's muscles are like nylon cords, strength concealed by economy of scale.

Harry Bosch has a moustache and brown hair that is graying.

Harry Bosch's eyes are a key aspect of his appearance; they are brown and nearly black, and were mentioned often for this reason in A Darkness More Than Night.

Harry Bosch is always finding himself in conflict with authority, whether with his lieutenant, or a deputy chief of police, or the FBI.

Harry Bosch uses this word in Lost Light, describing jazz, and implying a self-reference to his own work and personality.

Harry 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.

Besides the Connelly series, Harry Bosch has made cameo appearances 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 Harry Bosch appeared in a cameo, without identification, in Connelly's novel Chasing the Dime.

Harry Bosch is a jazz enthusiast and frequently plays vinyl records through vintage audio equipment.

Harry Bosch carries a revolver in The Black Echo.

The gun had been a gift from the father of a victim in a previous case, and Harry Bosch never used it because its grips were for right-handed use, while he is left-handed.

In Lost Light, after Harry Bosch retired from Homicide and got his PI license, he kept a Glock 27.

In February 2015, Amazon Prime premiered the series Harry Bosch, based on the novels.

For example, in the television series, Harry Bosch is born nearly 20 years later than in the novels, so that events can happen in the present day time, as they once did in the books.

Harry Bosch came back to the force after serving in Afghanistan and again encountering tunnel warfare.