APPEARANCE OF EVIL By Christopher Lane

Facing execution, a self-confessed murderer has recanted his statement. To public defender Susan Gant falls the task of defending a man everyone believes is guilty - not only of a brutal satanic slaying but of other equally horrifying crimes. Is Susan’s client the monster others think he is? Or was he, as he claims, framed for intruding into a diabolical secret? Things snap into focus when a phone call from someone who identifies himself as “Satan” warns Susan off the case...and precipitates a sequence of events that escalates from the disturbing to the terrifying. Susan finds herself on a dark, menacing pathway that winds through corridors of mind control, twisted psychotherapy, and murder...