The Grave Robber’s Daughter

Clowns: slapstick geniuses for all ages or evil child botherers with garish painted grins to hide their dark grimaces? Richard Sala appears to be veering toward the latter camp with his latest Gothic horror comedy. The town of Obadiah’s Glen has been taken over by malicious clowns, leaving its regular inhabitants to either escape while they can or hide in their basements, wondering what it is the clowns are doing in the cemetery on the hill. This book also sees the welcome return of Sala’s amateur detective Judy Drood, last seen in Mad Night.