Tropical Heat

An animal activist tracks smugglers, that import very rare parrots from South America over Key Mariah to the USA.

Nick and Sylvie are supposed to find a brother of their new client.

Nicks new love; Mina, believes in the power of Tarot cards. But for Nick they arent good. His alleged destiny is that everyone around him is in danger. Soon the prophecy seems to come true: Nick and Sylvie follow Alex Cranes wife. But instead of proving that she has an affair with an other man they see how the attractive Mrs Crane is killed by her ""friend"". Nick and Sylvie are now going to catch the mysterious murderer.

Ians ex-girlfriend arrives to Mariah Key. She claims that she needs money to pay her debts. She wants Ian to sell the rights of their bands hit song.

Nicks ex-partner, Chaffey, needs his help to catch a drug lord, who is being helped by a Customs official. After, Nick must decide whether to stay on Key Mariah.

Nick and Sylvie investigate the murder of a beauty contestants agent. When another contestant is found dead, they realize revenge may only be the beginning.

Denise Lawson believes that her ex-husband has kidnapped their son. So she asks Nick and Silvie to find him. The investigators find out that the guy is somehow connected with the criminals and that the kid is in danger. They find the boy but suddenly, both parents are missing.

Dunford accompanies Nick during jazzmans death investigation. He wants to collect materials to his the newest book.

Serial killer (Pike) stalks Sylvie.

Tara and Howard Fitzgerald want to spend their honeymoon on Key Mariah. But soon Tara has to ask Nick and Sylvie for help because her husband is gone. Then somebody breaks into their apartment. The thieves are searching for an important diskette. It probably contains information about Howards modern weapon system. They want to carry off the only witness. Nick can prevent it, but he cant prevent Howards death.

Ray Hampton, leader of a big coorporation, believes that his wife wants to kill him. He asks Nick to check it.

Spider and a tourist who go deep sea fishing, find the head of a dead body. It belongs to a fisherman, whose boat is gone. Because the fisherman had a high life insurance, the insurance company wants Nick and Sylvie to find out if his wife Glenda Lee is involved in her husbands death.

On Key Mariah is a man who drugs, rapes and tattoos the women he dates. Nick is hired to investigate by one of the victims. Nick begins to investigate and visits a man who tattoos. But he cant ask him because hes dead. Nick finds a hint of who might be the next victim. So Nick and Sylvie find the woman. But when the man finally sees he will be caught, he takes the two women as hostages and flees.

After a night out with attractive Amanda, Nick falls into a deep sleep. While he is sleeping somebody shoots a drug dealer with Nicks gun. Later Amanda is found dead too. Nick is suspected of killing both. While he is sitting in prison, Sylvie finds out that someone wants revenge on Nick. There is just one chance left for Nick: He has to break out of prison and to investigate the crimes himself.

Sylvie is approached by her old friend Cory Ann Crawford who works at a telephone sex line. A colleague of hers was murdered after receiving phone calls from a man calling himself Steven, and now that Steven is calling her, she is afraid for her life. Because he looks "like hell in fishnet stockings", Nick sends Sylvie undercover at the telephone line, while he sets about finding Steven.

In Dr. Coopers dental clinic a girl named Monica Cobb dies. The reason: heart stoppage. Nick begins to investigate when a woman from the insurance company tells him that Monica had a life insurance policy of about $2.5 million. Her business partner Morris now gets the money. And there is also a mysterious friend: Sandy Parker. After the money is stolen, Sandy is suspected. While Nick talks to Zach Sanders who knows all of them from college, Dr. Cooper is killed. And then the next surprise: The dead girl from the dentist isnt Monica Cobb.

Nick is seriously injured. Very concerned, Sylvie sits at his bedside and thinks about the evolution of their relationship.

When a young girl, student of an exclusive school, is killed, Nick and his partner are asked to find the murder. To do this, they are going to work in the school. Sylvie as a secretary and Nick as a teacher of English.

Spiders old love Anita visits him in order to ask him for help. She fears that Melito, her lover, would kill her because she ran away. Although Spider has had some bad experiences with Anita, he realizes that he still loves her and persuades Nick to help them. Melito is found dead in his hotel room. Anita swears that she isnt the murderer but it was her pistol that killed Melito. Spider tries to hide her but Anita found and is arrested. Anita tells him that she thinks Melitos accomplices had killed him because they wanted the money Anita had stolen. But that isnt her only secret.

A mature and debonair man is entertaining his elegant young lady friend with champagne in a posh hotel apartment. With seductive piano music tinkling in the background, he watches her safely lock away her expensive diamond necklace, then receives a phone call and excuses himself for a short while. The following morning when Nick and Sylvie are in the office, Sylvie reads in the newspaper headlines that wealthy socialite Christine Atherton has been murdered in her hotel room. Then Nick has a phone call from the Police Department to inform him that his father has been arrested for her murder. Through Nick reminiscing about his past to Sylvie, we learn that his father, Jack Slaughter, abandoned fatherhood to become a professional con-artist who now lives off wealthy women. Nick though, does not believe that his father killed Christine for her diamond necklace.

Whilst Yasmin, a new waitress at the Tropical Heat Bar is working, two Middle Eastern type thugs appear and try to abduct her. In the ensuing disturbance, Nick has to use a wooden tray as a shield when a big sharp pointy knife is thrown at him. The abductors flee after their failure, and afterwards, Yasmin tells Nick that they probably work for Jabril, a dangerous man who thinks that she has secrets pertaining to a certain Middle Eastern government (her homeland). As Nick feels he might be out of his depth with sensitive international issues, he and Sylvie go to see a US government expert in such delicate matters, the enigmatic, charming and suspicious Jack Laslo. Then the case and Yasmins life are placed in jeopardy when Sylvie uncharacteristically loses her professional focus and falls for Laslos charms.

Nick and Sylvie are called upon to visit posh English couple Patsy and Nigel Stratten. The Strattens are staying with their friend, Divo Melini, after being shot-at in their hotel. They believe that Nigels ex-accomplice, Clement St John, may be trying to kill them if they dont co-operate with his blackmail demands. St John allegedly wants money and revenge after Nigels evidence had him imprisoned for illegal drug trafficking. Trying to get a lead on St John from the manager of some apartments, the trail leads Nick to an Italian model called Lucia de Morfi. Investigating Lucia through her apartment window, Nick sees the stunning model being passionate with non other than... Nigel Stratten. Soon afterwards, Nicks investigation is severely hampered when some key characters wind up dead.

A married womans affair turns deadly when a man who has been recording her liaisons with her young lover blackmails her. He gives her a choice: pay up or die. Nick and Sylvie are hired to find out the identity of the blackmailer, but things get out of hand when the woman is found murdered, and her lover is framed for the crime.

Big Marv Pardee and his attractive wife Casey are having a domestic situation with the goldfish coming off worse. When Casey goes missing, Big Marv assigns Nick to the case, but not before we discover that Bob Sterling, the President of Marvs business corporation has a thing for Casey.

Russell Wyndham accidentally kills his girlfriend with an enhancing drug during a lovemaking session, then seconds later... his wife Alexandra walks in. Fearing for her life after Russell threatens to kill her if she calls for help, Alexandra turns to Nick for help. Russell Wyndham though, just happens to be the 6th Duke of Stowbridge, and hell resort to any means to cover his murky tracks and keep his regal reputation clean.

Evidence implicating a doctor in a nurses death is stolen while in Nicks care.

Nick and Sylvie are hired to protect restaurant critic Sherry Fox who feels that her life is in danger. When Sherry is murdered in her home, a young woman who claims to be psychic and that she dreamt about Sherrys death approaches Nick. She predicts that more deaths will occur including Nicks, but Nick is skeptical. However, he soon changes his mind when she is proved right.

While on a case, Sylvie is forced to defend herself and shoots a suspect dead. However, the suspect turns out to be an undercover cop and Sylvie is charged with manslaughter. With Sylvies self-confidence all but gone, Nick sets out to prove that the dead cop was in fact being bribed.

Spider tells to his female friends from the beach about one of Silvie and Nicks investigations. He explains to them what kind of relationship both investigators have, as well.

A beautiful woman lures Nick into a plot to kill her jealous husband.

Sylvies niece Katie arrives in town for a fashion shoot, and takes an instant liking to Nick. Before long, however, Nick is investigating a different kind of shooting.

After an elderly friend of Nicks is conned out of her life savings, Nick comes up with a plan to con the money back from the man responsible. Despite help from Sylvie and Spider, the plan gets dangerously out of hand when it starts to include a local mob boss and the con artists former partner who has her own score to settle.

Nick and Sylvie are hired by an insurance company to investigate the head of an adult film studio that took out a large insurance policy on a studio actress shortly before her murder. During their investigation they uncover a much deeper and sinister plot involving other murders.