Peter Orner’s newest novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, was published by Little, Brown and Company in August 2025.
The cold case of a young Hollywood starlet’s death sets a contemporary writer on an epic and comic quest to uncover the truth, and its connection to his own family—a new novel by “a major talent” (New York Times) and “one of the most distinctive voices of his generation” (Granta).