He joined the United States Army at age 17, after getting his foster father to sign the enlistment papers. This event is referred to in several Bosch novels. When he learned of his mother's murder, Bosch, then living at a youth hall, dived to the bottom of the pool, screamed until he ran out of air, and then swam back to the surface. His father, who he met later in life, was Mickey Haller Sr., a prominent defense attorney known for representing mobster Mickey Cohen, among other clients.īosch spent his youth in various orphanages and youth halls, and with the occasional foster family. Titus Welliver portrayed the title character from 2015 to 2021 in Bosch, a television series adapted from the novels, and from 2022 in its spin-off series Bosch: Legacy.īiography (book character) Background īosch's mother was a prostitute in Hollywood who was murdered on October 28, 1961, when Bosch was 11 years old. He was named after the 15th-century Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. Harry, as he is commonly known by his associates, is a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The novels are more or less coincident in timeframe with the year in which they were published.

Bosch debuted as the lead character in the 1992 novel The Black Echo, the first in a best-selling police procedural series now numbering 24 novels. Marjorie Phillips Lowe (mother deceased)ĭetective Hieronymus ' Harry' Bosch is a fictional character created by American author Michael Connelly.

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