One usually joins a running club for the health benefits and the camaraderie of a shared passion. This club offers its members running up to five nights a week from 7pm, running five loops on a purpose-built, Olympic-sized running track, which skirts picturesque scrublands and sand dunes surrounding the suburb of Esperance, a wealthy seaside community with big houses and views.
Carol organises the club and supplies the fluoro running gear with the club’s stylish logo. Her best friend, Lottie, Lottie’s twin sister, Shelby, and Freya are at its core, with husbands and partners joining when they can.
Much to Carol’s dismay, club members have recently become rather haphazard with their start times. What Carol doesn’t know, is that running has become secondary to other forms of cardiovascular activity in the scrub and dunes around the track. When a body is found on the track, the truth about the running club is exposed, and no amount of money is going to hide the truth.
Written from the points of view of Carol, Lottie, Shelby and Freya, the world of the rich in Esperance is far from picture perfect. There’s someone carrying an almighty grudge, and more than one person has a secret or two.
The Running Club is a fast-paced read with so many twists and turns that it had my head spinning. The writing is good and the multiple points of view are handled well.
A great book to read if you like your mysteries spicy, with a touch of the psychological.
Reviewed by Teresa Lewis
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ali Lowe grew up in the UK, and studied ancient history at university, before completing a postgraduate degree in journalism and heading for the bright lights of London.
She spent seven years at OK! magazine, where I did a lot of fun stuff like following David Beckham around Elton John’s garden in a designer dress and flying on a private jet to the Isle of Man with Simon Cowell.
In 2006, she went to Sydney for a year (well, that’s what she told my mum), and ended up staying. After having three Aussie babies, she set her sights on writing a book, and that novel became The Trivia Night.
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