Jerry "Jed" Edgar (AKA J. Edgar) was a homicide detective with the Hollywood division of the LAPD, and an occasional partner of Harry Bosch. He is the father of a son born in 1988, and the cousin of Jason Edgar. He is African-American, 6 ft. 4 in. in height and muscular. Unlike Bosch, Edgar is a sharp dresser, favoring suits from Nordstrom and expensive European shoes. He almost always wears a suit to crime scenes and is very careful to not get dirty. He can be highly judgmental or sarcastic when questioning witnesses or suspects, criticizing their actions in a way that can be counterproductive to eliciting information.