Murder Bimbo

By Rebecca Novack

Book Overview

"Deviously intelligent...Irresistible." --The New York Times Book Review - "Murder Bimbo is Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era." --Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X

The exhilaratingly twisty story of a sex worker turned political assassin on the run, Murder Bimbo is an unputdownable and wholly fresh take on truth, murder, and optics in our national moment.

A thirty-two-year-old sex worker is shocked when she's approached by undercover government agents to aid them in a top-secret plot to assassinate a politician known as Meat Neck. But once the deed is done, she realizes what made her the perfect recruit: She's 100% disposable.

Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits, and a laptop to save her own life.

Her best bet is to reach out to the wildly popular feminist investigative podcast Justice for Bimbos. In a hastily typed series of emails, the newly minted "Murder Bimbo" explains how she was recruited and then trained by a cabal of code-named US agents to take out Meat Neck.

Then she opens a new email. This time, it's addressed to her ex, and the facts line up a little differently...

Constructed in three increasingly unhinged acts, each a more subversive version of the story than the last, Murder Bimbo can be read as a gloriously bold literary thriller, a satirical vigilante's manifesto, or a raucous send-up of the political insanity we all live inside every day. Either way, it's a dead-serious announcement of an electric new voice in American literature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166821461X
• ISBN13: 9781668214619
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

RN Was Trying Too Hard.

Whatever Rebecca Novack thought she was doing with this book did not work. It’s full of a Bunch of twists and turns that inevitably led to either the lamest payout ever or no payout at all. I couldn’t care about the things she desperately wanted readers to care about with this story, and the things I actually wanted elaboration on she didn’t seem to care to explain. Also anyone editing this story should have been able to read it and see clear as day; 3 different perspectives of the same story told by the same person doesn’t make the novel innovative. It makes it confusing, and a failed attempt at the “unreliable narrator” approach. Premise is great even though it didn’t know what it wanted to be. It’s an easy read. But also riddled with editing errors.