Murder Bimbo
A gloriously deranged, stylish, debut literary thriller: 'Flays the political moment' Torrey Peters
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**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN STYLIST, VOGUE, LIT HUB, NEW YORK TIMES PODCAST, DEBUTIFUL; SHEREADS; BUSTLE**
'Flays the political moment. At all levels, it is a blast' Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
'Brimming with acidic humour . . . perfect for fans of A Certain Hunger and Boy Parts. Murder Bimbo is surely going to be the book everyone is talking about in 2026' Jessie Elland, The Ladie Upstairs
I'm a 32-year-old sex worker who just killed a politician. Please, please, please turn me into a feminist anti-hero . . .
A 32-year-old sex worker has just killed extremist political hopeful Meat Neck. Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits and a high-speed internet connection 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.
But, when she starts a new set of emails, this time addressed to her ex-girlfriend, we begin to realize that Murder Bimbo might not be the unsuspecting cog she claims to be.
In a time where 'truth' is more flexible than ever before - who really is Murder Bimbo? And what will she do next?
Introducing an unforgettable character for our times: hyper-articulate, totally untrustworthy, politically murky, charmingly petty, and wholly egotistical - this is . . . MURDER BIMBO.
'A devious and outrageously entertaining satire that skewers America's surreal political landscape' New York Times
'The pacing is rip-roaring and it is impossible to tell where the narrative will go next in this thrilling ride' The Skinny
'Gone Girl for the Luigi Mangione era' Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X
'Fun, layered, and loaded with wit. Impossible to put down' Jodie Matthews, author of Meet Me at the Surface
'Gloriously, riotously unhinged' Emma van Straaten, author of This Immaculate Body
'Dark, topical and bloody hilarious' Matilde Pratesi, author of Pig
'Prescient and entertainingly unnerving. A riotous, compulsive read' Ahana Virdi, author of Sour Fruit
'Profoundly bleak and entirely hilarious. I loved it' Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Novack debuts with a sly and incendiary novel centered on a sharp-witted and supremely unreliable heroine who commits a shocking act of political violence. After assassinating a boorish third-party presidential candidate on what she mistakenly believed were orders from the government, the unnamed narrator—a sex worker in her early 30s—flees to a safe house in Vermont. With little time before the authorities track her down, she decides that her one chance at survival rests with telling her story on the feminist podcast Justice for Bimbos. Adopting the moniker "Murder Bimbo," she composes a series of emails to the host laying out her career in sex work, a traumatic previous run-in with the man she killed, and her recruitment by a group of men passing themselves off as government agents. So goes the novel's first act. In acts two and three, the narrator retells her story to other people, shuffling the characters' motivations and leaving readers to parse the real from the fake. "This is a story about strange coalitions," writes Murder Bimbo—a conflicted Marxist who fantasizes about doing a "Scrooge McDuck into a pool of gold"—and Novack's novel forges fascinating connections between its colorful, if sometimes thinly drawn, cast. Readers will be seduced.
