Harry Bosch

Oh yes, that's chain reaction from Lee and Andrew Child, which is now holding up bookshelves.

And finally in books, The Hollow is the 26th novel in the Harry Bosch series by best-selling crime author, Michael Connolly.

Harry Bosch's half-brother, defence attorney Mickey Haller, informs Harry that a massive class action settlement involving McLaren Children's Centre, a brutal youth facility where Bosch lived after his mother's murder, entitles Harry to $400,000.

The news resurrects memories of a fellow inmate named Chops, whose body was discovered years ago inside an illegal hidden confinement space under a staircase that staff called The Hollow.

Chops' death was covered up

One option is to kind of go with the real, imagine a real passage of time, character getting older, and therefore, certain things no longer being possible.

If you think about Michael Connelly with Bosch, Bosch was forced to retire and things like that, because he did decide to age the character.

But what we decided to do was, it really stems from when I started writing on my own years ago.

There's a lot of things going on in publishing.

Again, very different, very succinct, uh, stories, and I'm ... was reading it because I'm thinking of starting to write a short story just to get some writing, some fiction writing on the page.

And then I've also gone back to the first Bosch book by Michael Connelly, Harry Bosch.

It's called The Black Echo, and I have read it before [laughs].

And I do remember some images, but I don't remember anything else, and I don't think I realized when I read it that it was book one, so that.

Basil.

Some of your other ones you could have said, Bosch came in, uh-

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... number 13.

So without a shadow of a doubt, there's an American crime author called Michael Connelly, C-O-N-N-E-L-L-Y.

He writes the famous Harry Bosch series.

People may have seen Harry Bosch on, I think it's Prime, do it.

I haven't really watched that many of the videos or the films.

I prefer reading the books.

What a fantastic title.

So

Harry Bosch is a fantastic

You have Michael Connelly releasing The Hollow.

This is the 21st novel featuring his detective, Harry Bosch.

Wow.

You have Louise Penny releasing Miss Wolcott's Ghost, which is the 21st Inspector Gamache novel, where he is searching for the so-called Lost Nation.

But what does that actually look like on the page? How do you spend character capital?

Let's use Michael Connelly's The Hollow as the prime example because the critics highlighted it as a late career masterstroke.

Longtime readers of Connelly know the bare bones outline of Harry Bosch's tragic childhood.

Right.

I've had this discussion with Michael Connelly many times.

Why did you age Bosch? What were you thinking? But it's interesting.

And in fact, we're going to do this book launch on October 27.

And the book is about Harry as his origin story.

So it'll be interesting to see, after all the books that Mike has written about Bosch, what he has to say.

Because The Last Coyote, the fourth book, was about Bosch working to solve his mother's murder.

But that was forever ago.

So that was going to be my other question, is that everybody has to start a series at some point in time.

Good afternoon and welcome to PodNumbra.

I'm very excited to have a special guest with me today, Mr. Michael Connelly, who some of you may know is the foremost best-selling author in the crime genre and the creator of the Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller, Rene Ballard, and Jack McAvoy series, to name a few.

Mike, thanks for joining us today, and I appreciate you being here.

I'm glad to be here.

And you can't really do that from your desk, he said.

And that really impressed me.

And so I've written about a guy who has that sign on his desk, Harry Bosch, and it's in the TV shows and all that, but it came from a real person.

a real life detective.