Build Me a Lie
(2026)(A book in the Bryson Wilde Thriller series)
A novel by Jim Michael Hansen and R J Jagger
Denver was built on ambition—railroads, cattle, oil, and dangerous deals made behind closed doors. But when power starts to rot, it doesn’t collapse quietly.
It kills.
Private investigator Bryson Wilde isn’t a hero. He works out of a tired second-floor office, takes cases that pay in cash, and knows better than to dig too deep into men who own judges for sport. He finds the missing. He asks the questions no one else will. And he survives.
Until Taylor Calder walks in.
She’s rich. Poised. Smarter than she lets on. And she’s certain her husband intends to murder her. He doesn’t know she’s onto him. She wants Wilde to stop it—quietly, cleanly, without exposing her.
Wilde designs a plan so airtight it will work perfectly.
Except it doesn’t.
Suddenly the police are circling. Powerful men are paying attention. And the line between victim and predator begins to blur. The deeper Wilde digs, the less certain he is about who’s being hunted—and who’s setting the trap.
Because in a city built on power and reputation, the truth is expensive.
And survival costs more.
A razor-edged thriller of wealth, deception, and moral compromise, this is Bryson Wilde at his most dangerous—where loyalty is fragile, secrets are currency, and disappearing might be the only way out.
Genre: Mystery
It kills.
Private investigator Bryson Wilde isn’t a hero. He works out of a tired second-floor office, takes cases that pay in cash, and knows better than to dig too deep into men who own judges for sport. He finds the missing. He asks the questions no one else will. And he survives.
Until Taylor Calder walks in.
She’s rich. Poised. Smarter than she lets on. And she’s certain her husband intends to murder her. He doesn’t know she’s onto him. She wants Wilde to stop it—quietly, cleanly, without exposing her.
Wilde designs a plan so airtight it will work perfectly.
Except it doesn’t.
Suddenly the police are circling. Powerful men are paying attention. And the line between victim and predator begins to blur. The deeper Wilde digs, the less certain he is about who’s being hunted—and who’s setting the trap.
Because in a city built on power and reputation, the truth is expensive.
And survival costs more.
A razor-edged thriller of wealth, deception, and moral compromise, this is Bryson Wilde at his most dangerous—where loyalty is fragile, secrets are currency, and disappearing might be the only way out.
Genre: Mystery
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