The Gossip Columnist's Daughter, by Peter Orner

A Novel.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the WBZ book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. A
brand new novel by Peter Orner is called The Gossip
Columnist's Daughter, involving the cold case of a young Hollywood starlet,
her death coming just after the assassination of jfk in
nineteen sixty three, and although this is a novel, there
are many tie ins to the events of that period
that lead readers to believe in a conspiracy. Karen Cookie Kupsinut,

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a twenty two year old starlet, was strangled in her
Hollywood apartment, and one intrepid writer, decades after the murder,
starts to investigate, putting together the odd pieces of Cookie's death,
trying to determine whether it was suicide, murder, or something
more sinister, a larger, nationwide conspiracy. The book is brand
new and critics are raving about it, the story of

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an unsolved case that is supposed to have readers on
the edge of their seats. The Gossip Columnist's Daughter is
a new novel by Peter Orner, and that is the
book Club. WBZ, Boston's news radio