A history of fear : a novel

Grayson Hale is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found hanged, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along?