So Harry wants to know what she has learned from her autopsy that she performed on Calexico Moore. She tells him she can’t, or that if she does, he can’t repeat it because she is currently an “interim” Chief Medical Examiner, and that might jeopardize her becoming permanent. Harry eagerly agrees to not relay the info she is about to give him. She tells him, the Moore case may not be a suicide. They make love and later she goes to take a shower. She hasn’t even finished washing his stink off of her when he has the phone calling a reporter friend of his, to let the reporter know that he, the reporter, should look into the Moore autopsy as to whether it is a suicide or a homocide. And, without telling her, Harry heads off to Mexico. *When I read that, my first thought was that if Harry and I worked together, and I had gotten a promise from him not to share info, and that he knew it might jeopardize me getting or keeping a job that was very important to me, I would never trust that “lying sack of shit” ever again. And, Bosch could call me up at all hours of the day looking for favors, and if I had caller ID, I wouldn’t answer his calls until “normal working hours & days” and when he finally did talk to me, I would put his request “in the queue” and not give him a damned thing more advantage than anyone else.

Now, I didn’t read the Bosch novels in the order they were published. I actually read “The Black Ice” just before I read “City of Bones” and these books were eight years apart. In “City of Bones” Harry calls up Teresa asking for a favor, not during regular business hours. It is New Years and Teresa is preparing to go to an event, but she agrees to let Harry come over to show her a bone. She meets him at the door, inspects the bone and identifies it as human, and she abruptly brushes him off to go through other channels. And she tells Harry not to call her again, but to go through channels. Having read the two books so close together, my memory and Teresa’s memory would probably be very close to what a “wronged” person would remember, even eight years later.

Harry Bosch is a lying sack of dog shit. Not to be trusted. And definitely not someone that is owed anything. No cutting in line. No, “you know Harry.” Yes, I know Harry. “That lying sack of dog shit, Harry Bosch,” can’t be trusted.

In “City of Bones” there is a young police detective, partnered with Kiz, that released confidential info to a reporter friend of his. This info is published, and as a direct result a man commits suicide. Now Harry can become incensed at this action. The only problem is that Harry doesn’t remember that he did the same thing to Teresa just eight years ago. She kept her job, but that doesn’t make Harry any more trustworthy. Because remember, Harry Bosch is a “lying sack of dog shit.”