The Bloodline Game: A Raleigh Vance Thriller

SOMEONE PAID TO WATCH HER DIE.At dawn, a young woman is found on a Miami beach, posed like a centerpiece - every drop of blood drained, four surgical incisions, no sign of struggle, a single black orchid in her hand.Detective Raleigh Vance has seen staged bodies before. Never one this patient. The victim is Chloe Montgomery, twenty-one, a senator's daughter, and every clean, bloodless inch of the scene is saying the same thing: this was not rage. It was craft. Somebody killed her with a surgeon's hand and an artist's eye - and wanted her found.Then a second orchid appears. On Raleigh's windshield.The deeper she cuts, the less this looks like a serial killer and the more it looks like a selection. Someone is choosing victims not at random, but by blood - by lineage, by sealed records of births and adoptions that were never supposed to see daylight. The killings are being streamed to an audience that pays to watch. And the audience has names Raleigh knows from the news.Governors. Senators. A man who is always one move ahead.Raleigh learned from her father to look first and trust only what she can prove. But the closer she gets, the clearer it becomes that the orchids were never the mystery.They were the invitation.THE BLOODLINE GAME is the first Raleigh Vance thriller - a dark, intelligent forensic conspiracy novel for readers who want their suspense grounded in evidence and their conspiracies vast. For fans of forensic investigation, elite conspiracies, and a detective who refuses to look away.