A rom-com thriller, two girls of different races finding their futures, and Nick Carraway writes “Gatsby.” Fun reads for the lazy days of August.

“Matchmaking for Psychopaths”: by Tasha Coryell (Berkley, $29)

People frequently assumed that our clients were ugly or strange and that was why they struggled to find love; often it was the opposite. Strange people found one another. — from “Matchmaking for Psychopaths”

“This book is bat— crazy.”

That’s one reader’s online opinion of Tasha Coryell’s quirky novel “Matchmaking for Psychopaths,” and the St. Paul author considers it a compliment to her story about Lexie, a matchmaker whose niche is pairing psychopaths. She’s well-suited to the job because her parents were serial killers who lured young women to their deaths. Now Lexie’s father is

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