Yet another new Christian novel I saw and liked because of the cover the last time I visited Lifeway. Downloaded onto our Kindle, I read this one in just a few days and loved it. I'm not huge on legal thrillers, because they don't interest me much, but I'm really big on novels that chronicle the spiritual growth of a character. This one does that for sure.
The main character is a young lawyer who comes back to his small hometown to tidy up his father's affairs after his untimely death. There, while staying with his retired pastor great-uncle, he's drawn into the circumstances around the death and the various people it has touched and affected. Over the course of the novel, Tom Crane has to face his spiritual status, which up to this point has been nil.
It's interesting that in this particular novel the main character's spiritual awakening or transformation isn't miraculous, sudden or 100% perfect. Tom experiences more ups and downs after starting to sense God's presence in his life than before, and goes from joy to despair to joy again the last half of the novel. I like the honesty of this portrayal, as opposed to some novels that make it sound like everything is perfect after conversion.
I saw at the end of the book that Robert Whitlow has written several other novels that I can try. I'm sure I'll run into Robert Whitlow's work again in the future.
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