Sacred Clowns is the eleventh Navajo Mystery Novel and features Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police. Leaphorn and Chee have been recently reassigned as a team for the Special Investigations Office of the Navajo Tribal Police, but their working relationship is an uneasy one. They must put this unease behind them and work to solve a case whose murders will lead them both to a mission school on the Navajo Reservation and out of their jurisdiction to Tano Indian pueblo.