

I think a lot of this is deliberately done by Whitlow to help build Tami as an authentic character.

But in her journey, Tami is not perfect and, at times, comes across as difficult or irritating. With Tami, Whitlow has set up an interesting example of a person living in the world but not being of the world. Interestingly, Tammy chooses to lie to her mother about this when a letter comes to the house addressed to Tami and not the actual spelling of her name. One of the first decisions Tammy makes is to change her name's spelling to Tami, to make it look more sophisticated. She receives an offer for a summer internship at a prestigious Savannah lawfirm and after a lot of debate and prayer decides to take it. She was homeschooled until she went to the University of Georgia to study law. Tammy comes from a very conservative Christian home. Now, he brings the lessons learned there to the lessons of his early legal thriller storytelling skills together in "Deeper Waters." Whitlow's last few books have moved out of the legal arena to some extent and focused more on character-building. Neither is cotent to write carbon copies of the same legal thrillers over and over again and instead choose to push themselves and their audiences. And as the years have gone along, it's been interesting to watch the path both have taken as writers. When I first discovered the contemporary Christian legal thrillers by Robert Whitlow, I made the inevitable comparisons between his stories and those of John Grisham.
