Basic Instinct Author:Richard Osborne Based on the Motion Picture written by Joe Eszterhas. — Both shcokingly suspenseful and searingly erotic, here is the novel based on the controversial movie starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. This chilling story begins at the murder scene of an ex-rock star, found stabbed to death in his bed, his hands bound by a white silk scarf. The p... more »rime suspect is his lover, Catherine Tramell. She is a novelist whose latest book concerns a former rock star whose girlfriend ties him to a bed with a white Hermes scarf and kills him with an ice pick. San Francisco police detective Nick Curran must find out if someone is trying to frame Tramell, or if she concocted the perfect alibi.She wouldn't be so stupid as to incriminate herself by following her own plot, would she? Taken in by her cool sophistication and the mind games she torments him with, Nick falls under Tramell's spell. But will his obsession to outwit her get him killed?« less