1--What is the title of your latest release?
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
2--What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
Was Matt Thompson’s death while deer hunting an accident, suicide, or murder? Read the novel to find out.
3--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
All my novels take place in Georgia, South Carolina, or North Carolina, which are the places I’ve lived and can describe with texture and nuance. You should feel like you’re there as you turn the page.
4--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
I’d love having lunch with Connor Grantham, the minister forced to become detective in the novel. He’s much smarter than I am so I could learn a lot from him.
5--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Thinker, woodsman, emerging romantic.
6--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
Figuring out what really happened in the story was complicated, even for me as the creator.
7--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
Both, but the major edit happens after the first draft is done.
8--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Any kind of smoked meat and banana pudding that tastes like my mother’s recipe.
9--Describe your writing space/office!
I write in a small bedroom on the top floor of our ninety-year-old house. Previously, it also served as a display room for handmade quilts.
10--Who is an author you admire?
Hemingway because he paved the way for fiction writing in a more direct, journalistic style.
11--Is there a book that changed your life?
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Browne and King. It taught me the craft of novel writing.
12--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
My agent called several months after my first novel, The List, was submitted for publication and told me the acquisitions editor had misplaced the final pages and wanted to find out what happened. I knew at that moment the book would be published.
13--What’s your favorite genre to read?
History of any type.
14--What’s your favorite movie?
Lord of the Rings, but this isn’t a fair question. It’s like asking me which one of my children I love the most.
15--What is your favorite season?
Fall. That’s when it’s time for SEC football.
16--How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
It’s in June, so cooking out with all my children and grandchildren present and playing in the backyard swimming pool.
17--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Andor
18--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Southern comfort
19--What do you do when you have free time?
Free time? What’s that? I enjoy hiking and trout fishing.
20--What can readers expect from you next?
More legal dramas inhabited by interesting characters you’d like to meet in real life - except for the bad ones.
Someone stands to gain millions of dollars from a hunter’s accidental death . . . unless that death wasn’t an accident.
Matt and Elena Thompson present the picture of perfection. But their enviable life isn’t all it seems. Their marriage is on the rocks, and financial disaster looms. Then Matt is killed in a hunting accident, and the questions and accusations begin to mount.
Attorney Liz Acosta, newly arrived in the mountains of north Georgia after graduating from law school, plans to get some job experience on her resume before returning home to seek a position with a big-time firm. Intellectual pastor Connor Grantham isn’t sure that shepherding a rural congregation is what he ultimately wants to do with his life. Drawn to philosophy, theology, and nature, he’s beginning to feel more at home in north Georgia—especially after he meets the brilliant and energetic Liz.
While Liz and Connor spend more time with each other and discover just how compatible two people from wildly different backgrounds can be, they’re also being drawn into the shadowy world of Matt and Elena Thompson. As the couple’s marriage counselor, Connor finds himself in the middle of their explosive arguments. As Elena’s attorney, Liz is caught in the tailspin created by Matt’s death.
Together, Connor and Liz attempt to solve the mystery of what really happened to Matt. If his death is ruled an accident, then the double indemnity clause in his life insurance would go into effect, essentially doubling the payout. But as Liz sorts through the legal paperwork of who stands to gain an immense sum of money from Matt’s death, Connor is accused of the unthinkable with much more at stake than millions of dollars.
Thriller Legal [Thomas Nelson, On Sale: June 6, 2023, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9780785234746 / ]
Robert Whitlow grew up in north Georgia. He graduated magna cum laude from Furman University with a BA in history in 1976 and received his JD with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1979. A practicing attorney, he is a partner in a Charlotte, NC law firm. He and his wife Kathy have four children and nine grandchildren.
Robert began writing in 1996. His novels are set in the South and include both legal suspense and interesting characterization. It is his desire to write stories that reveal some of the ways God interacts with people in realistic scenarios.
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