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The Bloodline Game: A Raleigh Vance Thriller
Paperback
Series: Raleigh Vance Thriller, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 3 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
SOME BLOODLINES SHOULD STAY BURIED.
A young woman is found at dawn on a Miami beach, posed like a centerpiece - drained of blood, arranged without a mark of struggle, a single black orchid resting in her hand.
Detective Raleigh Vance has seen staged bodies before. She has never seen one this deliberate. The victim is Chloe Montgomery, daughter of one of the most powerful families in the country, and every clean, bloodless inch of the scene is telling Raleigh the same thing: this was not rage. It was craft. Somebody killed Chloe with the patience of a surgeon and the care of an artist - and they wanted her found.
Raleigh reads the dead for a living. She learned at her father's kitchen table to look before she touches, to trust what she can prove over what she feels. But the deeper she cuts into this case, the less it looks like a serial killer and the more it looks like a selection - victims chosen not at random, but by blood, by lineage, by records that were never supposed to see daylight.
Someone has been playing a long game with other people's children. They have names for themselves, a mythology, and a reach that runs through governors, senators, and a man who is always one move ahead. And the closer Raleigh gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes that the orchids were never the mystery.
They were the invitation.
Some crimes don't leave a body. They leave a bloodline.
THE BLOODLINE GAME is the first novel in the Raleigh Vance forensic conspiracy thriller series - a dark, intelligent, morally serious thriller for readers who like their suspense grounded and their conspiracies vast. Perfect for fans of forensic investigation, elite conspiracies, and a detective who refuses to look away.
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