Appearance of Evil: A Novel
Public defender Susan Gant gets her first big chance when she is assigned to defend Craig Hanson, a clinical psychiatrist who has confessed to the murder of a teenager and the sexual abuse of his own daughters. Now claiming that he was framed, Hanson begs Gant to investigate. As she digs into the facts, Gant begins to believe that her client is innocent, especially after she begins receiving threatening messages from someone calling himself Satan. Undeterred by the death threats, Gant discovers some potentially harmful practices in the psychiatric community and also begins to reexamine her own mixed feelings about God and religion. An exciting thriller with a multitude of twists and surprises, Lane's (Eden's Gate, Zondervan, 1994) novel is well recommended.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.