I'm definitely not finished with Harry Bosch

Crime writer Michael Connelly talks to HANNAH STEPHENSON about introducing a new cop in his 40th book - and more screen adaptations

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Yet Bosch will live on, Michael says confidently. “I've definitely not finished with Bosch. I think we'll probably see him again next year in a book.”

“Sometimes it's just somebody who can lead through example and Titus Welliver (who plays Harry Bosch in both TV series) has the gravitas of a guy who knows how to act well and is like automatic, not having to do a number of takes because he doesn’t know his lines.”

The author, who has lived in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years but also has a home in Florida, where he grew up, has been to Catalina Island many times and was aware that there was just one detective there assigned to handle everything except homicide, which is left to the LA County Sheriff's Department.

“I talked to a guy who was an old hand who could tell me about the politics, the place and what it’s like to be the lone detective on the island. He actually retired and now lives in Texas. But I liked the idea of it almost being like a private detective story, a guy who doesn’t have a (police) partner and works cases by himself.”

Michael, who was a crime reporter at the Los Angeles Times, writes at least one book a year - his next is a Lincoln Lawyer book called The Proving Ground which is out in autumn.