尼克是旧金山市的一名警探。由于在工作中曾经有过过失，他对未来感到非常迷惘，情绪不稳，时常 要接受警局心理医生贝思的检查，而贝思同时也是尼克的情人。 一天，尼克奉命去调查一起离奇的凶杀案。遇害者是一位过气的摇滚歌星，在自家的床上被人用冰锥残忍地杀死。有人看到案发前他与女友凯瑟琳在一起。根据凯瑟琳女友罗克西的指引，他在海边的一栋小别墅里找到了凯瑟琳。。 凯瑟琳是一位漂亮迷人的畅销小说家，精明自信。她直言不讳地告诉尼克，她常常为了写好小说中的人物而和各种类型的男人上床。她和摇滚歌星的交往也正是出于这样的目的。 在警察局受审时，凯瑟琳显得异常平静。但在她最近发表的一本小说中，叙述了一个女子最后杀死自己恋人的故事，其方式和手法与这次案件有着惊人的相似。尽管凯瑟琳顺利通过了测谎试验，但尼克凭借自己的直觉断定，这个谜一样的女人就是凶手。 随着调查的深入，尼克逐渐迷上了凯瑟琳。他发现凯瑟琳是一个双性恋，罗克西和贝思都与她有着暧昧关系，而这三个美丽的女人都有着重大的犯罪嫌疑。尼克陷入了迷惑之中，死亡的威胁笼罩着他，他只有依据自己的本能来追缉凶手，以保全自己的性命hellip;hellip; Nick is in San Francisco, a detective. Because had mistakes in the work, he felt very confused about the future, emotional instability, often take police psychological doctor beth's inspection, and beth and Nick's lover. One day, Nick were ordered to investigate a bizarre murder. The victim is a gas of a rock star, in their own bed with ice piton brutally killed by people. The crime was seen before he and his girlfriend Catherine together. According to Catherine's girlfriend Roxy, guide him in a cottage by the sea found Catherine.. Catherine is a glamorous best-selling novelist, smart confident. She bluntly told Nick, she often in order to write the characters in the novel and various types of men to ?