Sacred Clowns
About this book
Officer Chee attempts to solve two modern murders by deciphering the sacred clown's ancient message to the people of the Tano pueblo. AN ANCIENT TRUST IS BROKEN During a Tano kachina ceremony something in the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before.In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown's message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and crooked Indian traders, they find a trail of blood that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact.
Subjects
- arizona, fiction
- chee, jim (fictitious character)
- chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction
- children's fiction
- detective and mystery stories
- fiction
- fiction, cultural heritage
- fiction, indigenous
- fiction - mystery/ detective
- fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- fiction, political
- indian reservation police
- indians of north america, fiction
- jim chee (fictional character)
- jim chee (fictitious character)
- large type books
- leaphorn, joe, lt. (fictitious character)
- leaphorn, joe, lt. (fictitious character), fiction
- lt. leaphorn, joe (fictional character)
- lt. leaphorn, joe (fictitious character)
- mystery
- mystery and detective stories
- mystery & detective - general
- mystery/suspense
- navajo indian reservation, fiction
- navajo indians
- police
- police, fiction
- southwestern states, fiction