Murder Bimbo - by Rebecca Novack (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

"Murder Bimbo is Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era, and Rebecca Novack is one of our funniest and most acerbic new writers." --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.

Review Quotes

"Murder Bimbo is an ingeniously structured prism: at first look it plays satirically on true crime sensationalism, at second, it flays the political moment of grift, greed, and exploitation, and finally, it contemplates the desperate and lasting things we do for love. At all levels, it is a blast." --Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

"Rebecca Novack's Murder Bimbo is an engrossing, hilarious revenge novel that perfectly captures our paranoid political moment. Is it a spy thriller? Is it a love story? It's both and so much more--sharp, surprising, bold, and impossible to put down. Novack's debut doesn't miss." --Isle McElroy, author of People Collide

"Murder Bimbo is Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era, and Rebecca Novack is one of our funniest and most acerbic new writers." --Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X

"A riotously sharp, darkly glittering debut that detonates every expectation of the contemporary thriller. Rebecca Novack dazzles as she turns satire, desire, and rage into something electric and new--this is the rare book that feels like it's brilliantly inventing its own genre as it goes." --Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman

"Murder Bimbo takes each one of its brazen hairpin turns with giddy gusto. Its cunning, charismatic narrator leads us confidently past 'unreliable' into something much wilder and more fun. Rebecca Novack's debut is keenly observant, frenetically funny, and a hell of a good time." --Temim Fruchter, author of City of Laughter

"A thrilling premise in its own right, made all the more memorable by the titular killer's twisty (and unreliable) narration. From beginning to end, Murder Bimbo will keep you on your toes."--Bustle

"A darkly funny and absurdist take on the female murderer. . . Murder Bimbo is the type of weird girl whose interpretation is open to the reader--how real is her narrative? Or how fake and unhinged? --CrimeReads

"Sly and incendiary. . . Novack's novel forges fascinating connections . . . . Readers will be seduced." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Rebecca Novack grew up in the Rocky Mountains. She has a master's in theological studies from Harvard Divinity school.