Alexandra finds out on her birthday that her best friend has been having an affair with her fiancé.  Never mind.  She works at dating agency for psychopaths, the kind of thing that is a niche job, but could be an even bigger one due to company expansion.  Can she get the job, find true love and escape a dark past?  

If the book sounds original, you’d be surprised.  It’s nothing new.  It’s what I would call a gearshifter, where the genre changes in the course of the narrative.  There have been books in more recent years that have done it. And here, it alternates between being a fluffy romantic book (dates, breakups and cupcakes) with a dark romance (a murder where someone proves their love by literally giving someone their heart).  

Sadly, the jarring shift in tone doesn’t fit.  It’s not romantic enough, the darkness overwhelms the fluff.  The concept of romance/serial killing has been done much better in another book earlier this year.  The author of which is listed on the book’s blurb.   I’ll leave you to discover which one.  This is published by Orion on 17th July and I thank them for a preview copy.  #matchmakingforpsyschopaths.