History Literature / TheConcreteBlonde

* ContinuityNod: When looking at rows of porn videos trying to find a missing person, Bosch remembers how he once read every name on the Vietnam War memorial for a case. This happened in the first Bosch novel, ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''. Later Bosch's lover runs her hand over the bullet scar on his shoulder, also a reference to that book. And still later, when he's being cross-examined by Honey Chandler, he mentions killing someone during "a murder and robbery investigation with the FBI", still another reference to that book.

* ArcWords: This novel is the first to refer to Bosch as being on a "mission," which would quickly come to define his character, ultimately being filled out to the characterization of "man on a mission" in Literature/ADarknessMoreThanNight.

* ArcWords: This novel is the first to refer to Bosch as being on a "mission," which would quickly come to define his character.

* CallBack: When looking at rows of porn videos trying to find a missing person, Bosch remembers how he once read every name on the Vietnam War memorial for a case. This happened in the first Bosch novel, ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''. Later Bosch's lover runs her hand over the bullet scar on his shoulder, also a reference to that book. And still later, when he's being cross-examined by Honey Chandler, he mentions killing someone during "a murder and robbery investigation with the FBI", still another reference to that book.

* TitleDrop: [[{{Understatement}} Standard]] for Connelly. Possibly even an artifact title drop: the phrase "black heart," used frequently in the second half of the book, may be a clue that originally, this book was going to have a different title, one that followed [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming the pattern]] established by ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' and ''Literature/TheBlackIce''.

* TitleDrop: [[{{Understatement}} Standard]] for Connelly. Possibly even an artifact title drop: the phrase "black heart," used frequently in the second half of the book, may be a clue that originally, this book was going to have a different title, one that followed the pattern established by ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' and ''Literature/TheBlackIce''.

* TitleDrop: Standard for Connelly. Possibly even an artifact title drop: the phrase "black heart," used frequently in the second half of the book, may be a clue that originally, this book was going to have a different title, one that followed the pattern established by ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' and ''Literature/TheBlackIce''.

* ChekhovsGun: It's established in the first chapter that Bremmer the reporter wrote a book on the Dollmaker case. He's the copycat.

* CallBack: When looking at rows of porn videos trying to find a missing person, Bosch remembers how he once read every name on the Vietnam War memorial for a case. This happened in the first Bosch novel, ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''. Later Bosch's lover runs her hand over the bullet scar on his shoulder, also a reference to that book.

* CallBack: When looking at rows of porn videos trying to find a missing person, Bosch remembers how he once read every name on the Vietnam War memorial for a case. This happened in the first Bosch novel, ''Literature/TheBlackEcho''.

* DistantPrologue: The novel starts out with a prologue that recounts Bosch's fatal encounter with the Dollmaker, Norman Church, before a TimeSkip to the present where Bosch is being sued for that shooting.

-->Edgar was parked in front of a Winchell's Donuts store, apparently not realizing the comic implications of this.

Bosch is sued by the widow of a suspected serial killer he shot during a tense standoff some years earlier. While the trial is going on, a new victim with the serial killer's modus operandi is found.

-->''Edgar was parked in front of a Winchell's Donuts store, apparently not realizing the comic implications of this.''

* HelloAttorney: Honey Chandler, the sexy lawyer who's trying to ruin Harry Bosch's career.

* BloodFromTheMouth

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