Detective Hieronymus 'Harry' Bosch /haɪˈrɒnɨməs ˈboʊʃ/ is a literary character created by Michael Connelly in the 1992 novel The Black Echo, and the lead character in a police procedural series now numbering seventeen novels. The novels are more or less coincident in time frame with the year in which they were published.Harry, as he is commonly known by his associates, is a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.