Harry Bosch series

The Harry Bosch series is an ongoing series of novels written by Michael Connelly that feature Los Angeles investigator Harry Bosch.

Though Bosch has appeared in other novels written by Connelly (and others), particularly those included in the Mickey Haller series, the Bosch official series currently includes fourteen books:

The Harry Bosch series

1. The Black Echo (1992)
2. The Black Ice (1993)
3. The Concrete Blonde (1994)
4. The Last Coyote (1995)
5. Trunk Music (1997)
6. Angels Flight (1999)
7. A Darkness More Than Night (2001)
8. City of Bones (2002)
9. Lost Light (2003)
10. The Narrows (2004)
11. The Closers (2005)
12. Echo Park (2006)
13. The Overlook (2007)
14. 9 Dragons (2009)

Mickey Haller appearances

• The Brass Verdict (2008)
• The Reversal (2010)

Short Stories

• "Christmas Even" (2004)
• "Cielo Azul" (2005)
• "Angle of Investigation" (2005)
• "Suicide Run" (2007)
• "One Dollar Jackpot" (2007)
• "Father's Day" (2008)
• "Blue on Black" (2010)

Extra canonical appearances

Cons, Scams & Grifts

Bosch is mentioned twice in the 2001 novel by Joe Gores:

""We got a call from Harry Bosch, the Hollywood Homicide cop," said Guildenstern around his sandwich. Rosenkrantz blew on his coffee and nodded to go on. "Seems a guy got knifed down in LaLa and died in the arms of the snoopy old broad from next door. His dying words were that it was his wife did the nasty to him.

""Heavens! A wife killing her husband? I'm astounded."

""Harry said both the vic and the perp were from up here. Ephrem and Yana Poteet. Even had a local address where we can start." He turned to Beverly as if she had asked a question. "Victim and perpetrator–guy who got did done it." (pg. 20)

""Next," said Guildenstern, "we find out at Marine World in Vallejo that Heslip was asking a lot of questions about Poteet. So we call Harry Bosch down in L.A., and guess what? There's Heslip's big number nines all over Harry's case. Cops don't like P.I.'s mixing in murder, so we–" (pg. 233)

The Last Detective

Bosch appears in the 2003 novel by Robert Crais in an unnamed cameo:

"I said, "Hey."

It took him a moment to place me. A few years ago, his house had been damaged in the big earthquake. I didn't know him then of that he was with LAPD, but not long after I jogged past while he was clearing debris and saw that he had a small rat tattooed on his shoulder. The tat marked him as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. I stopped to give him a hand. Maybe because we had that connection.

He said, "Oh yeah, how ya doin'?"

"I heard you quit."

He frowned at the cigarette, then drew deep before dropping it.

"I did."

"I don't mean the smoking. I heard you left the job."

"That's right. I hadda come around to sign the papers."

It was time to go, but neither of us moved. I wanted to tell him about Abbott and Fields, and how I pretended to be sick after they died because I was scared to go out again. I wanted to tell him that I had not murdered anyone and how the rage in Lucy's eyes scared me and all the other things that I had never been able to talk about because he was older and he had been there and I thought he might understand, but, instead, I looked at the sky.

He said, "Well, stop around some time. We'll have a beer."

"Okay. You, too."

He walked around the side of the building, and then he was gone. I wondered about the silence that he carried, and then I wondered at my own. (pgs. 109-110)

Strange Bedfellows

Bosch was mentioned in the 2006 novel by Paula Woods:

"Ahead I could see my lieutenant walking toward the parking lot, where he shook hands with a curly-headed, mustachioed guy who used to work at RHD. Stobaugh couldn't be trying to get Harry Bosch transferred back to Robbery-Homicide, not after that case he'd screwed up.

"Or maybe, my voice proposed, Bosch can fill the spot on Stobaugh's team you'll be vacating if you don't get your act together." (pg. 9)

The Bosch Universe

Other novels written by Connelly belong to the same fictional universe of the Bosch series by virtue of character crossovers.

• Blood Work is connected because Terry McCaleb appeared in A Darkness More Than Night and The Narrows.
• Void Moon is connected because Cassidy Black appeared in The Narrows and The Closers.
• The Poet and The Scarecrow are connected because Jack McEvoy appeared in A Darkness More Than Night, and Rachel Walling appeared in The Narrows, Echo Park, and The Overlook.
• The Mickey Haller series itself is also connected because Bosch, Haller's half-brother, appeared first in The Brass Verdict and then in The Reversal.