num_pages: 320
description: During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before.Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies.
language: English
title: Sacred Clowns
titlecomplete: Sacred Clowns (Leaphorn & Chee, #11)
characters: Janet Pete, Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn
genres: American, Mystery, Native Americans, Fiction, Detective, Thriller, Westerns, Audiobook, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 9142
places: The United States of America
series: Leaphorn & Chee
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Harper Perennial