Search - Sacred Clowns (Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Novels)

i really enjoyed this book. the story held my interest as well as the characters. any fan of tony hillerman and his characters joe leaphorn and jim chee will enjoy this book. pbs has shown a couple of tony hillerman's novels as shows under their "mystery" series. i enjoyed these mysteries shows also. mr. hillerman gives the reader an education into the native american indian culture with the different tribes mentioned within his stories.

This is a wonderful book. My son read it for his summer reading for school. There is a lot of history to this book. I liked it so much I found other books by Hillerman. A must read!!

Different cover than the one shown here but same great Hillerman mystery.

A dancing koshare is murdered shortly after doing his dance. Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn investigate in true Navahoe fashion. A koshare is from the Hopi tribe and for anyone who is interested in Indian lore this is explored by Hillerman who is one of the best. Very good book

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 Lt. 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.

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 ws killed just day before.
In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Leaphorn os Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacrd clown's message to the people of th eTano 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.

A great Leaphorn/Chee yarn.

From Publishers Weekly
Telling his story the Navajo way, Hillerman ( Coyote Waits ) fully develops the background of the cases pursued by Navajo Tribal Policemen, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, so that the resolutions--personal and professional--ring true with gratifying inevitability. A white woodshop teacher at St. Bonaventure's mission school is bludgeoned to death in his schoolroom; a student, a young boy from Tano Pueblo, is missing. The boy's uncle, a koshare, or sacred clown, in a kachina dance, is stabbed to death right after the ceremony in which he has symbolically warned of the dangers of selling sacred objects; an old man is killed on the highway in a hit and run. Chee, who is apprehensive about working for Leaphorn, tries to locate the missing boy, whose grandmother is on the Navajo Tribal Council, and to learn who ran down the old man, but he is distracted by his growing attachment to lawyer Janet Pete and by his desire to be a hataalii, or shaman, as well as a cop. Leaphorn searches for clues while simultaneously grieving for his wife who died 18 months earlier and considering his relationship with linguistics professor Louisa Bourebonette. Jurisdictional conflicts with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Apache County Sheriff's Office reflect the cultural differences that obtain among tribes and clans as this first Leaphorn story in three years, steeped in Navajo lore and traditions, draws to its convincing conclusions.

This story takes place in the United States Southwest. It is about a Navajo Tribal Police Officer and the lore and traditions of the Navajo.

During a Tano Kachina ceremony, something in the antics of the dancing 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....

Vintage Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn mystery. Soemone has killed one of the sacred clowns at a Kachina dance. During their investigation, they turn up a connection between this murder and two others.