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Amaryllis Coltraine

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Coltraine, Amaryllis “Ammy”

First appeared in Origin in Death (Fall, 2059); mentioned in Innocent in Death (February 9-15, 2060), appeared in Salvation in Death (c. May 2060) and Promises in Death (Spring 2060), and mentioned in Kindred in Death (c. June 2060, Sunday - Saturday)[1], Indulgence in Death (July, 2060)[2], Possession in Death (July, 2060)[3], Celebrity in Death (October, 2060)[4], Festive in Death (December 20-24, 2060), Obsession in Death (December 27-31, 2060)[5], Devoted in Death (mid-January, 2061)[6] Wonderment in Death (mid-January, 2061)[7], Apprentice in Death (late January, 2061)[8], Shadows in Death (May, 2061)[9], and Forgotten in Death (early June, 2061)[10]

Personal Information[]

Description[]

  • A stupendously endowed blonde; she had a voice like melted butter and eyes of drowning blue.[12] She has a silky lock of melted butter hair and deep summer blue eyes.[14]
  • In Salvation in Death, Dallas described her as the Southern belle cop with the big rack.[15]
    • Detective Magnolia Blossom[14]
  • 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.[16]
  • Her hands were nicely manicured.[17]
    • 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.[18]

Personality[]

  • She was smart, capable, organized, steady, and precise; a good cop who did the job and did not live it.[19] She was good with people.[20]
  • She was feminine, subtle, sexual, and liked pretty things.[21]
  • She was a thinker – she excelled in school and had no black marks and no shiny stars; she was careful.[22]
  • 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.[23]

History[]

  • She transferred to New York from Atlanta (Coltraine’s YANNI) a few months ago (just under a year ago)[24] 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.[19]
  • 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.[25]
    • 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.[26]
    • 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.[27] Eve said Alex didn’t, or wouldn’t, give up his shady operations for her and she couldn’t look the other way.[28]
    • Roarke said that Alex’s lady (“his lady”) realized he wasn’t going to become fully legitimate. Because of that, she broke it off.[29]
    • 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.[30]
  • After Amaryllis and Alex split up, she returned the jewelry he had given her[31] because the jewelry mattered to her. And since they mattered to her, she couldn’t keep them.[32]

Family History[]

  • Her parents and brother still live in Atlanta.[33]
  • She came from a good background, upper middle-class, single-marriage family.[34]

Homicide Information[]

  • TOD: 11:40 p.m. (2340)[35]
  • 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.[36]
    • After she was stunned, she fell to the floor. She was brought back to consciousness with a stimulant before being murdered by her police-issue stunner pressed against her throat and fired.[37]
    • She carried both her standard issue weapon and her clutch piece when she went out.[38]
  • She was murdered by Cleo Grady under the direction of Max Ricker.[39]

Interesting Facts[]

  • Made home-baked fudge brownies - she baked for relaxation.[40]
  • When asked if he was smitten with her, Morris asked, “Who wouldn’t be?”[40]
    • In Salvation, Morris was given at least two dozen roses from a woman who was a “very good friend.”[41] Eve speculated they were given by Coltraine.[42]
    • 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.[14]
    • Morris gave Ammy roses and a green-eyed, silky, white-furred, droid cat; she named it Sachmo (not Satchmo) for Louis Armstrong.[43]
  • After Eve notified him of Coltraine’s murder, Morris said he had been falling in love with her.[44] They were planning to go away for a few days, to Graceland.[45] Throughout Promises, she was repeatedly called “Morris’s lady” by several people.[46]
    • They had dinner together at Jaq’s the night before she died.[47]
  • 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.[48]
  • She had a habit of taking the stairs.[49]
  • She used a weasel, Stu Bollimer, who owned a pawnshop on Spring. As they were both from Georgia, she played the connection.[12] One of her recent cases involved a Chinatown robbery and Denny Su.[50]
  • 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 after her death.[51]

YANNI[]

  • Origins
    • According to Origin in Death, Coltraine came to New York from Savannah, Georgia;<[12] according to Promises in Death, she transferred from Atlanta, Georgia.[24] (return to section)

References[]

  1. ↑ Kindred in Death, Chapter 4
  2. ↑ Indulgence in Death, Chapter 9
  3. ↑ Possession in Death, Chapter 2
  4. ↑ Celebrity in Death, Chapter 6
  5. ↑ Obsession in Death, Chapter 9
  6. ↑ Devoted in Death, Chapter 3
  7. ↑ Wonderment in Death, Chapter 5
  8. ↑ Apprentice in Death, Chapter 3
  9. ↑ Shadows in Death, Chapter 13
  10. ↑ Forgotten in Death, Chapter 17
  11. ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 44
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 43
  13. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 38, 88
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 155
  15. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 23
  16. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 1-2
  17. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 8
  18. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 18, 162
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 20, 70
  20. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 47, 50, 70
  21. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 24, 70, 90
  22. ↑ Promises in Death, Chapter 8
  23. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 219
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 80
  25. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 76-77
  26. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 79-80
  27. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 99-100
  28. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 164
  29. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 204
  30. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 117-119, 153-154
  31. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 118, 156, 162
  32. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 162
  33. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 35
  34. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 122, 162
  35. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 10
  36. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 2, 17
  37. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 29-30, 34-35
  38. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 12, 23, 34
  39. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 335-337, 339
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Innocent in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15401-0), p. 226
  41. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), pp. 20-21
  42. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 23
  43. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 1-2, 24, 314
  44. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 19
  45. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 20
  46. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 22, 35, 70, 263
  47. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 36-37
  48. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 307
  49. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), pp. 1, 22
  50. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 75
  51. ↑ Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 341
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