Black Echo, for one.
Which makes the house and the movie poster on the wall a little anomalous. (They’ve only shown the poster in oblique view.)
Yeah, right. But he keeps mentioning it in this season; I don’t remember the various book plots after all this time, so it was somewhat of a guess for me.
So, the book where he first meets the future mother of his daughter, who is currently a teenager in the series? 
Next thing you know, they’ll do The Narrows followed by The Poet.
And, as I alluded to, was the “real life” tale he sold to the movies, enabling him to buy that cliffside house, and for which the movie poster hangs on the wall.
…is a funny thing, circularity…
I just finished watching season 3. I’ve enjoyed the show and I think Welliver plays the part quite well. But I have to admit the main attraction for me is the setting. I love seeing all those LA locations without having to deal with the hassles of actually being there.
Ahh…I missed the significance of that!
I just finished season 3, too. There was a lot going on, and I occasionally lost track of crimes, evidence, and even suspects. But I didn’t care. I enjoy the series, Welliver, and definitely the setting. As usual, the ending left us hanging on some points. The trouble with a long hiatus between seasons is that you forget who the people are and what they’re working on. I guess Bosch will continue pursuing his “one-armed man” until the public can’t take it any more.
Quibble about plot point:[spoiler] When the glass with Bosch’s prints was found at the murder scene, instead of assuming he had made a mistake and removed his gloves, Bosch should have said to himself, “I would NEVER make a mistake like that,” and really thought about how that glass got there. Were there other glasses like that at the crime scene? And the next time he was at that bar, he should have noticed that that’s the kind of glasses they used there. It’s not that people don’t make mistakes, but that’s exactly the kind of mistake Bosch would not ever make.
For example, I live alone, and I NEVER lay my glasses down on any surface where I might step or sit. Never on the floor, on the bed, on a chair, stool–never ever. Only on shelves, counters, or tables at least waist high or higher. So if I find my glasses on the floor or bed, I’m not going to say, “Oh I guess I forgot.” I’d assume that one of my cats knocked them off wherever I put them. They are very handy to blame things on. I stepped on a pair of glasses once in college (1970) and created this rule as a result. Hasn’t happened since. I make tons of mistakes in my daily life. But this is one mistake I won’t ever make.
Bosch absent-mindedly handling a glass at a crime scene with an ungloved hand? Never in million years. [/spoiler]Just sayin’.
I think they showed him thinking about that more than once, and figuring out something was going on. He didn’t really believe the explanation he gave. But it got lost in the whirl of other development.
Me, I found…
…the whole issue of the fire to be crudely shoehorned in. So he just happens to see it, and discuss it with Central, and it turns out to be important, but nothing much is made of it until the end? Felt so pasted-on, and I’m betting it’s a lift from a much later book.
…but it did set up an absolutely dazzling final scene. Those last ten seconds were… breathtaking. Two very skilled veteran actors slugging it out with every nuance they could muster.
AB, thanks for your comments. Overall, I’m liking the show. The best part is the view at night from his balcony.
I binge-watched season 3 over the weekend, and enjoyed it as much as the first two. I like the character and the stories. I love Titus Welliver, and it’s still fun for me to see Jamie Hector play a cop. I agree about Lance Reddick being pretty one-note, but I think he plays the type well.
Until recently I’d never read a Bosch book: since the start of this year I’ve read a few, but only the ones where Bosch appears in a Mickey Haller story. So the plots are still new to me.
I’ll watch season 4. 
I’ll watch Welliver stand and scratch his ass for 58 minutes.
Haven’t finished the season yet, only on ep 4, but this bugged me as well. At first, I thought Bosch was covering for having touched it while he was planting the cameras. But he didn’t. So why was he just ignoring that? It was obviously planted - why doesn’t he care?
It’s funny - in one of the novels, Bosch comments that cops are easy to tail, because they think no one can tail them. A cop-specific blind side, as it were. He used that to his advantage. But here he is, doing a variation. It doesn’t occur to him to wonder HOW that glass with his prints got there?
Also, those cameras. I don’t think they were a plot point in the novel though I can’t remember. But in the episode, why isn’t he looking at the recordings and seeing who put the owl there, who murdered the guy, who took his camera (hi, Jerry!)? Did he have an internet router for the cameras as well? Where was it? They aren’t trying to say those cameras transmitted all the way to Bosch’s house?
And he really should have handled Woody surveiling his house a bit better (same cop bias - he did exactly what the head baddie sad: Don’t underestimate them.) It appears he didn’t even get the plate.
I’m reading the new novel, The Late Show, with the new detective Ballard. I’m beginning to think Connelly writes Bosch (and Ballard) based on him. And he really doesn’t know what an asshole he is. Bosch (and Ballard) certainly could get more done if they didn’t view every interaction as a conflict they have to win.