H. Bosch, painter and cop! Michael Connelly’s idea of naming his fiction detective Hieronymous Bosch, Harry for short, after the great XV-XVI century painter seemed to me a good twist. Indeed, sometimes, Harry Bosch comes out across the pages has having inners pains and tumultuous thoughts as one could only just guess that Bosch had in the XVI century when he managed to paint those outstanding paintings. Something I got used to, whenever I am in Madrid, is to pop up in the Prado Museum, just walk through to the first floor into the Bosch room and stand in front of Bosch’s Garden of Delights. What was going on his mind when coming up with those scenes? More astonishing even are both the Temptation of St. Anthony in Lisbon’s Ancient Art Museum and the Last Judgement in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. The somewhat nightmarish like figures and characters depicted particularly in those last two triptychs are remarkable and no doubt quite outside the usual ethics and values for the time. One could even say that Bosch was a XVI century Surrealist. When Michael Connelly pushes Harry Bosch, who in turn drags partner Kiz Rider, and surrounding cops, along tortuous investigations, was he thinking any of those things?