TROPHIES AND DEAD THINGS Author:MARCIA MULLER Sharon McCone Mystery — A random series of murders is only a succession of headlines in the San Francisco Chronicle for investigator Sharon McCone until one of her legal co-op's clients becomes the victim. Perry Hilderly had been a founder of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in the early 1960's. Although he had settled down and drawn up a prop... more »er will several years earlier, a holograph document was found among his possessions.... the new will disinherits his children and leaves his estate to four unknowns. As Sharon tries to track down the strange quartet, she wonders what connection they had with the dead man. One is a popular news anchor, one is a successful divorce attorney, one runs a Marin County horse stable and the fourth is a alcoholic oysterman. Before long, Sharon notices a pattern---a tangled pattern of involvement leading back to the Vietnam War. When the random killer starts to strike closer to home, the facts behind Hilderly's death becomes less abstract. Never has Sharon become so personally involved in a case and face so brutal consequences of murderous rage .« less