Medical Mystery

Plausible Liars

4.5

118 reviews332 pages · Second Edition · 2026 · ISBN 978-1-0000-0002-8

A Dr. Lindsey McCall medical mystery where the most dangerous diagnosis is the one nobody will write down.

Synopsis

Dr. Lindsey McCall follows a chain of convenient explanations through a hospital system that would rather she stopped asking.

This second edition includes a reader discussion guide, which our mystery circle used almost line by line.

A fair puzzle with a real moral spine. Wilder never lets the medicine become wallpaper.

“A lie only survives as long as everyone finds it convenient.”

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