The Solicitor
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Pub Date 21 Feb 2026 | Archive Date 31 Dec 2026
Shauna Ritz | Providence Street Press
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Description
A prodigy with a gift for languages and a taste for danger, Marcello Luna leaves Montevideo in 1977 with a glittering résumé—Fulbright scholar, concert-level pianist, chameleon in any room—and a secret that could unmake him. In Los Angeles, he and his poised wife Beatriz step into the orbit of a Beverly Hills dynasty where money is a mirror and every reflection lies. What begins as reinvention becomes seduction, fraud, and a love story twisted by ambition.
As the city glows—Trousdale parties, Vegas openings, the mother church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles - The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels—Beatriz charts another map: the quiet ledger of what survival costs. While whispers about a new, nameless illness move from rumor to hospital corridors, Marcello’s charisma curdles into control, and the couple’s marriage becomes the stage for a final, devastating performance.
Told with the elegance of a classic Hollywood melodrama and the bite of a modern thriller, The Solicitor spans a decade of secrets and awakenings, from candlelit cathedrals in Uruguay to mirrored salons above Sunset. It’s a story about forbidden love and the masks we choose; about class, immigration, and the AIDS era’s shattering truth; and about the one legacy we get to decide—who tells our story when we cannot.
For readers of The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Line of Beauty, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, this is a lavish, propulsive novel about desire, deception, and the price of being seen.
Advance Praise
"A sharp summer read about secrets, power, and the price of ambition."
"A sharp summer read about secrets, power, and the price of ambition."
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9798998706929 |
| PRICE | $36.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 480 |