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My Violent Muse
- Author
- Rosie Sycamore
- Narrator
- Natalie Naudus
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 6 October 2026
- Run Time
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Morello is a nobody: a homeless orphan and starving artist with nothing but impossible dreams of escaping obscurity. Then Florence appears—dazzling, dangerous, and offering Morello a way out, on one chilling condition: each year, they must hunt and kill one of the art world’s predatory men. In return, Morello will inherit a life of privilege and promise.
Together, they transform revenge into twisted performance art, staging each murder with meticulous, theatrical flair. But when Morello falls for Jude, a wealthy art student who offers her a glimpse of a life sans murder, her carefully curated reality begins to unravel, and she’s one lie away from losing everything she’s killed for. With the body count rising and anonymous threats closing in, Morello must finally ask herself: Is the cost of vengeance ever truly paid? And after a life shaped by violence and manipulation, will she ever become the artist of her own fate, or will she remain forever someone else’s muse?
Compulsive and deviant, My Violent Muse is a razor-sharp thriller about revenge, exploitation, obsession, and the dangerous bargains we strike for power, survival, and love.
Critics Review
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"Rosie Sycamore has penned a bloody treat in her debut, My Violent Muse. This decadent novel pours out a hallucinatory cocktail of revenge, blood lust, art-world debauchery, eat-the-rich class satire, unhinged women, and romance. Written in prose that's both lush and pointed, My Violent Muse rockets to a gut-punch of an ending that is as satisfying as it is mysterious."
—Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger -
"Decisively written and decadently disturbing, My Violent Muse is the perfect spiritual successor to films like Heathers and Jennifer’s Body. Sycamore skewers the upper class's art obsession with gleeful aplomb. A beautifully bloody ode to lust, murder, and exploitation.”
—Saratoga Schaefer, USA TODAY bestselling author of Trad Wife -
“As lurid and sticky as a Morello cherry, and as sensuously sharp as a pomegranate, this debut assaults the senses with blood, obsession, rage and lust. Rosie Sycamore toys with ideas of morality, money, and art, and pushes them all to their limit. Pert and witty, ambivalent and dreamlike, this novel is sharply written, and peppered with pop culture and film references. It is a gleeful, giddy read, and I loved every moment.”
—Emma van Straaten, award-winning author of Creep -
“Louts, sexists, and creepers never saw it coming! A glorious blow for women's wrongs, you'll be screaming as these unhinged murder mommies take down the scene from the inside. This has it all in a blood-soaked, razor-sharp satire of art world excess... Super fun!”
—Bitter Karella, three-time Hugo Award nominee and author of Moonflow
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Details
- Author
- Rosie Sycamore
- Narrator
- Natalie Naudus
- Duration
- 10 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 October 2026
- ISBN
- 9781668659724
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Feminism and feminist theory, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Would you still love me if I were a murderer…?   Morello is a nobody: a homeless orphan and starving artist with nothing but impossible dreams of escaping obscurity. Then Florence appears—dazzling, dangerous, and offering Morello a way out, on one chilling condition: each year, they must hunt and kill one of the art world’s predatory men. In return, Morello will inherit a life of privilege and promise.   Together, they transform revenge into twisted performance art, staging each murder with meticulous, theatrical flair. But when Morello falls for Jude, a wealthy art student who offers her a glimpse of a life sans murder, her carefully curated reality begins to unravel, and she’s one lie away from losing everything she’s killed for. With the body count rising and anonymous threats closing in, Morello must finally ask herself: Is the cost of vengeance ever truly paid? And after a life shaped by violence and manipulation, will she ever become the artist of her own fate, or will she remain forever someone else’s muse?   Compulsive and deviant, My Violent Muse is a razor-sharp thriller about revenge, exploitation, obsession, and the dangerous bargains we strike for power, survival, and love.  
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