Coltraine, Amaryllis (Ammy)
First appears in Origin in Death, Salvation in Death (c. May 2060)[1] and Promises in Death (Spring 2060)[2]
Personal Information
- General Description: Magnolia blossom in full bloom.[3]
- DOB: c. 2027
- Age: 33
- Hair: Blond
- Eyes: Blue
- Address: Apartment 405, 525 West Twenty-third Street, New York City, New York
- Relationships: July Coltraine (brother); unnamed parents
- Occupation: Detective third grade NYPSD, Eighteenth squad (House 42)[4]
Description
- A stupendously endowed blonde; she had a voice like melted butter and eyes of drowning blue.[5] She has a silky lock of melted butter hair and deep summer blue eyes.[6]
- In Salvation in Death, Dallas described her as the Southern belle cop with the big rack.[7]
- Detective Magnolia Blossom[8]
- She was a slim, athletic built woman with eyes of deep blue. Her blond hair swung past her shoulders, a parted curtain for a lovely face.[9]
- Her hands were nicely manicured.[10]
- She always wore a ring on the middle finger of her right hand; a square-cut pink tourmaline, flanked by small green tourmaline baguettes on a silver band. Her parents gave her the ring on her twenty-first birthday. It was a reminder of who and where she'd come from.[11]
Personality
- She was smart, capable, organized, steady, and precise; a good cop who did the job and did not live it.[12] She was good with people.[13]
- She was feminine, subtle, sexual, and liked pretty things.[14]
- She was a thinker – she excelled in school and had no black marks or no shiny stars; she was careful.[15]
- She liked to walk in the city, to see what was going on and be a part of it; she liked the night and walking at night; she wanted to learn the saxophone but she had no talent for it so she'd listen to Morris.[16]
History
- She transferred to New York from Atlanta (Coltraine's YANNI) a few months ago (just under a year ago)[17] and, according to Morris, she had a serious relationship for over two-years in college. He also said she was seriously involved with someone else before she moved to New York but he never learned the man's name.[18]
- She worked a robbery of an antique shop in Atlanta and spoke with the owner of the shop several times. His name was Alex Ricker.[19]
- She narrowed it down to three suspects and, when she attempted to serve warrants, the suspects were gone; the missing antique store items were found in their homes. Within two days, the badly beaten bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River – chained together. Alex was alibied.[20]
- Alex and Ammy became involved, as lovers, for nearly two years and kept the relationship quiet; they'd been separated for about a year when Coltraine was murdered and, according to Alex, they parted as friends.[21] Eve said Alex didn't, or wouldn't, give up his shady operations for her and she couldn't look the other way.[22]
- Roarke said that Alex's lady ("his lady") realized he wasn't going to become fully legitimate. Because of that, she broke it off.[23]
- IAB investigated Coltraine. About nine months before she transferred from Atlanta to New York, photos of Coltraine and Alex Ricker hand-holding and kissing landed on IAB's desk. Webster said they couldn't find any evidence of wrong-doing on either part and they bumped her down in priority.[24]
- After Amaryllis and Alex split up, she returned the jewelry he had given her[25] because the jewelry mattered to her. And since they mattered to her, she couldn't keep them.[26]
Family History
- Her parents and brother still live in Atlanta.[27]
- She came from a good background, upper middle-class, single-marriage family.[28]
Homicide Information
- TOD: 11:40pm (2340)[29]
- She was stunned, mid-body in her apartment building stairwell, five floors below her home. There was no sign of struggle and no visible wounds but for the stunner burns on her throat.[30]
- She was murdered by Cleo Grady under the direction of Max Ricker.[33]
Interesting Facts
- Makes home-baked fudge brownies - she bakes for relaxation.[34]
- When asked if he's smitten with her, Morris asks, "Who wouldn't be?"[35]
- In Salvation, Morris was given at least two dozen roses from a woman who is a "very good friend."[36] Eve speculated they were given by Coltraine.[37]
- She thanked Morris with a gleam in her eyes that made it clear she was thanking him for a lot more than a crappy soy product.[38]
- Morris gave Ammy roses and a green-eyed, silky, white-furred, droid cat; she named it Sachmo.[39]
- After Eve notified him of Coltraine's murder, Morris said he had been falling in love with her.[40] They were planning to go away for a few days, to Graceland.[41] Throughout Promises, she was repeatedly called "Morris's lady" by several people.[42]
- They had dinner together at Jaq's the night before she died.[43]
- Eve said she never gave Amaryllis a chance. She was irritated that Morris was stuck on her but she thinks she would have liked her okay if she had given Ammy more of a chance.[44]
- She had a habit of taking the stairs.[45]
- She used a weasel, Stu Bollimer, who owns a pawnshop on Spring. As they're both from Georgia, she played the connection.[46] One of her recent cases involved a Chinatown robbery and Denny Su.[47]
- The first thing Amaryllis bought herself when she came to New York was a small glass butterfly with its jeweled wings lifted - she said it always made her smile. Morris gave the butterfly to Eve.[48]
YANNI
- Origins
- According to Origin in Death, Coltraine came to New York from Savannah, Georgia;[49] according to Promises in Death, she transferred from Atlanta, Georgia.[50] (return to section)
References
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 43
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 6
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 44
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 43; Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 38, 88
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 43
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 155
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 23
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 155
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 1, 2
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 8
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 18, 162
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 20, 70
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 47, 50, 70
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 24, 70, 90
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p.
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 219
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 80
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 20, 70
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 76, 77
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 79, 80
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 99, 100
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 164
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 204
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 117-119, 153, 154
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 118, 156, 162
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 162
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 35
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 122, 162
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 10
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 2, 17
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 29, 30, 34, 35
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 12, 23, 34
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 335-337, 339
- ↑ Innocent in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15401-0), p. 226
- ↑ Innocent in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15401-0), p. 226
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 20, 21
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 23
- ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 155
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 1, 2, 24, 314
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 19
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 20
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 22, 35, 70, 263
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 36, 37
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 307
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 1, 22
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 43
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 75
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 341
- ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 43
- ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 80