Sacred clowns

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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: Fiction,  Navajo Indians,  Police,  Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictitious character),  Jim Chee (Fictitious character),  Indian reservation police,  Detective and mystery stories,  Mystery,  Chee, Jim (Fictitious character),  Leaphorn, Joe, Lt. (Fictitious character),  Fiction - Mystery/ Detective,  Mystery & Detective - General,  Mystery/Suspense,  Jim Chee (Fictional character),  Lt. Leaphorn, Joe (Fictional character),  Leaphorn, joe, lt. (fictitious character), fiction,  Chee, jim (fictitious character), fiction,  Arizona, fiction,  Navajo indian reservation, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Indians of north america, fiction,  Fiction, political,  Large type books,  Southwestern states, fiction,  Fiction, indigenous,  Fiction, cultural heritage,  Children's fiction,  Police, fiction,  Mystery and detective stories

Places: Southwestern States,  New Southwest