The Concrete Blonde Characters & Character Analysis

The Concrete Blonde Characters

Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch

A Los Angeles police detective, Harry Bosch is one of the good guys. Harry Bosch is being sued in US Court by the widow of a man who died reaching for his toupee while Bosch is trying to place him under arrest. At forty-three years of age, Harry is still in good shape. His stomach is flat, and his body still well defined and muscled. His body hair is going gray at a rate that is faster than the hair on his head, but he is not the type to let vanity determine how he looks. He has a tattoo from his tour in Vietnam, and a bullet wound scars his right shoulder.

His mother, Marjorie Phillips Lowe, was raped and strangled in October of 1961. Honey Chandler uses this information in court to infer that Harry shot Norman Church with malice of forethought, as...
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