num_pages: 384
description: First there was the trouble at Saint Boneventure boarding school. A teacher is dead a boy is missing and a council woman has put a lot of pressure on Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee to find her grandson. Sitting on a rooftop watching sacred clowns perform their antics in a Pueblo ceremony Chee spots the boy. Then suddenly the crowd is in commotion. One of the clowns has been savagely murdered. Without a single clue Chee and Leaphorn must follow a serpentine trail through the Indian clans and nations seeking the thread that links two brutal murders a missing teenager a band of lobbyists trying to put a toxic dump site on Pueblo land and an invaluable memento given to the tribes by Abraham Lincoln in a fast-paced flawless mystery that is Hillerman at his lyrical evocative spellbinding best.
language: English
title: Sacred Clowns
publisher: HarperCollins e-books