Murder Bimbo by Novack, Rebecca

"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.

Author: Rebecca Novack
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: 02/10/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781668214619

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2026
Shelf Awareness 01/01/0001
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2025
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2025
Library Journal 12/01/2025 pg. 70

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