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The Running Club Abraham Spencer “Spence” Allen III is a heavy-drinking, misanthropic Deputy Attorney General, homicide division, for Salt Lake County, Utah, who becomes the de facto leader of the new Pepper Pond Running Club after a schism in the Salt Lake Road Runners caused by two simultaneous but unrelated kerfuffles during a Wednesday night run. Molly O’Brien is a tart-tongued Vice President of Public Relations for a ski and snowboard manufacturer who plays by her own fast-and-loose rules to the apprehension of men in positions of power.
After a sensationalized arrest and trial, Nielsen Skarsgard, a disgraced Mormon convert, is acquitted of human trafficking, a business he started as a missionary to Sao Paolo but grew into a feeder of young women to the notorious Los Angeles adult film industry. The club, upon learning of the acquittal while celebrating after the Boston Marathon, hatches a vigilante plan to kill Skarsgard to avenge the suicide death of the distraught star witness, a University of Utah college runner. Keeping the plan secret proves as hard as seven amateurs planning a murder. |
The Running Club is available on Amazon and at fine independent bookstores near you.
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Advance praise for The Running Club
The Running Club is the best comic mystery running novel I've ever read. It's also the only comic mystery running novel I've ever read. But seriously, it's really good!
— Matt Fitzgerald, author of 80/20 Running and How Bad Do You Want it?
Ben Gross sets a blistering pace from page one and never lets up. With an engaging cast of irreverent conspirators, a villain you'll love to hate, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a healthy dollop of humor, avid runners and sedentary readers alike will race through The Running Club.
— Dan Mayland, author of The Colonel’s Mistake
— Matt Fitzgerald, author of 80/20 Running and How Bad Do You Want it?
Ben Gross sets a blistering pace from page one and never lets up. With an engaging cast of irreverent conspirators, a villain you'll love to hate, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and a healthy dollop of humor, avid runners and sedentary readers alike will race through The Running Club.
— Dan Mayland, author of The Colonel’s Mistake
About Me
Ben Gross is a writer, lawyer, runner, and dog-fanatic who resides in Park City, Utah. His debut novel The Running Club (Moonshine Cove) will be available on June 7, 2024.
Two truths and a lie
- Ben briefly served as mayor of a small town
- Ben once found a severed finger near a volcano
- Ben was an extra in The Waterboy and an episode of Mindhunter
Book Tour
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World Book Tour begins Summer 2024
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Park City, Utah
Salt Lake City
Berlin, Germany
Salt Lake City
Berlin, Germany
