This novel, modeled after "the Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis, has a contemporary twist. E-mail, not snail mail, is used. The major characters are female. God is addressed as the Mother Hen. The demons and victim are female. Anesthesia advised her understudy, Termite, on how to sway her victim from worship and hope in the Mother Hen.
"The Devil's Inbox" raises interesting questions: Are there really demons? How do evil ones influence people? Barbara Laymon's narrative suggests that demons do not control humans. Rather, demons influence a human's decision to not trust and worship God by putting suggestions of fear, doubt and anxiety in their heads.
Termite is instructed to use circumstances such as marital unhappiness, the stress of raising children and disappointment in relationiships at church to create dissonance within her victim and between the victim and her family and God.
Reflective Christians will have "aha" moments while reading this book. The demon's strategy for creating busyness and unhappiness will be all too familiar.