Reasonable by K.T. Carlisle

A recently jilted designer wakes up confused and covered in her best friend’s blood in Reasonable by K.T. Carlisle, a dark and dramatic first installment of the What Happened to Mia Davis? series.

As Cat is dumped into the unforgiving justice system and her inexplicable brain fog begins to clear, she begins to realize that she may be an alcoholic, but she’s not a killer. However, proving her innocence from behind bars won’t be easy, particularly for her surviving business partners, considering that her guilt seems impossible to deny. Digging into her own past and facing her laundry list of mistakes may be the only way to unravel the puzzle of her imprisonment.

The lives of four friends who were rocked by collegiate tragedy and then bound by a joint business make for an interesting emotional foundation, and their explosive dynamics are the driving force of the plot, which moves forward at a quick pace. Suspicious seeds about Elaine’s murder are planted early, which only take deeper root as the narrative spools back through gradual background exposition and pieces of traumatic history linking Cat, Elaine, Tim, Evan, and Mia together. Leaping forward and back in time, this character- and dialogue-driven drama will keep readers guessing as the full sinister scope is revealed.

Unreliable narrators, spectral terrors, gut-wrenching betrayals, and unearthed secrets make for an undeniably strong opening salvo of this new series.

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