Matchmaking for Psychopaths
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Love is a dangerous game when your clients are killers…from the bestselling author behind Love Letters to a Serial Killer.
When Lexie's fiancé runs off with her so-called best friend on her birthday, her carefully crafted fairy-tale life shatters. Having survived horrors in her past, she was determined to finally get her happily-ever-after—and she's not giving up yet.
To distract herself, Lexie throws herself into her unusual job: matchmaking psychopaths (a specialty her clients are blissfully unaware of). But the loneliness is crushing. So when a gorgeous, overprotective new client named Aidan insists they're soulmates, and another intriguing client, Rebecca, seems perfect to fill the best-friend-shaped hole in her life, Lexie can't help but find the attention comforting—despite her own professional boundaries.
Then a human heart appears on Lexie's doorstep. As more threatening packages arrive and her fiancé mysteriously disappears, she must confront a terrifying question: did she inadvertently match herself with a killer? Between Aidan's claims that her fiancé will never return, Rebecca's growing presence in her life, and her own dark past resurfacing, Lexie's matchmaker instincts are being tested like never before.
Because someone is determined to ensure her story ends with a funeral.
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In this jaunty mashup of rom-com and serial killer thriller from Coryell (Love Letters to a Serial Killer), professional matchmaker Lexie learns that her fiancé, Noah, is leaving her for her best friend. To make matters worse, Noah announces his intentions during a dinner that Lexie expected to turn into a surprise birthday party. Raised by her mother, a convicted felon, on a steady diet of romantic comedies, Lexie embarks on a ruthless crusade to win Noah back in time for their scheduled wedding. Eventually, she ropes in her matchmaking clients—each of whom have been classified as psychopaths by Lexie's matchmaking company, unbeknownst to them—including one who's madly in love with her. When Noah goes missing amid Lexie's scheming, she starts to worry that her lovesick quest is becoming dangerous. Though the book's title gives ample notice of Coryell's intentions, casual mystery readers might find the combination of screwball comedy and slasher novel jarring, and Lexie, while memorable, isn't an easy character to like. Still, adventurous readers and fans of Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan series will enjoy this twisted romp.
