Murder Bimbo
10 February 2026Imprint: Manilla Press
Synopsis
Murder Bimbo, a 32-year-old sex worker turned unlikely assassin, has just killed extremist political hopeful Meat Neck, and now has only two days, her wits, and a high-speed internet connection to save her own life.
Her best bet is to email a feminist podcast: Justice for Bimbos. The host has a cult following, and a famous affection for maligned and murderous women. In a series of emails written over forty-eight hours from a secret location, MB explains how she was recruited and trained by a cabal of code-named men who claimed to be government agents. Meat Neck, who might remind us of (redacted, but please insert any number of men), is a threat to democracy. Sounds normal, right?
So, she kills him. And she's on the run. But, when she starts a new series of emails, this time addressed to her ex-girlfriend, X, we realize that MB might not be the unsuspecting cog she claims to be. In fact, the assassination may be part of a bigger scheme, one that's not political, but entirely personal.
In this gripping epistolary novel told in three parts, MB reveals three distinct personas: a feminist anti-hero to her sympathetic podcast host, a charming protagonist for her ex-girlfriend, and an unscrupulous survivor in her own head. Hyper-articulate, totally untrustworthy, politically murky, charmingly petty, and wholly egotistical she is... MURDER BIMBO.
Her best bet is to email a feminist podcast: Justice for Bimbos. The host has a cult following, and a famous affection for maligned and murderous women. In a series of emails written over forty-eight hours from a secret location, MB explains how she was recruited and trained by a cabal of code-named men who claimed to be government agents. Meat Neck, who might remind us of (redacted, but please insert any number of men), is a threat to democracy. Sounds normal, right?
So, she kills him. And she's on the run. But, when she starts a new series of emails, this time addressed to her ex-girlfriend, X, we realize that MB might not be the unsuspecting cog she claims to be. In fact, the assassination may be part of a bigger scheme, one that's not political, but entirely personal.
In this gripping epistolary novel told in three parts, MB reveals three distinct personas: a feminist anti-hero to her sympathetic podcast host, a charming protagonist for her ex-girlfriend, and an unscrupulous survivor in her own head. Hyper-articulate, totally untrustworthy, politically murky, charmingly petty, and wholly egotistical she is... MURDER BIMBO.
Details
10 February 2026320 pages
9781786587015Imprint: Manilla Press
Reviews
I'm a huge fan.Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X
I'm obsessed with this novel. The plot is propulsive as hell. But what really hooked me was Rebecca Novack's deep exploration of her narrator's morality and determination to express the truth of her experience. As the narrator writes her version of events . . . in dispatches that are mordantly funny and devastatingly vulnerable-she becomes the author of her own story, and the novel thus becomes a work of great literature. This is destined to be a major debut, and I can't wait for it to happen.David Varno, Publishers Weekly