A review by jacqui_des
Le verdict by Nick Stone

3.0

More like 3.5 stars
This was a very enjoyable Grishamesque legal thriller. I had hoped that there would be more titles but it seems the author stopped writing which is a real shame.

Memorable Quotes

"That was, after all, the British way. Fake modesty, faker self-deprecation."

"She was a phosphorescent rainbow in a monochrome desert."

"Isn’t happiness, after all, but a short stopover on a long sad road?"

"The backstabbers turned backslappers."

"There’s no such thing as a wholly truthful person. Everyone lies. That’s a given. Liars come in two forms – fibbers and omitters; storytellers and editors."

"I was an unremarkable student, neither good nor bad, just doing enough to get by. A coaster in a racer’s world."

"Five days a week, you get out of bed before you want to, go to a place you don’t want to be, do things you’d rather not do, and publicly tolerate a small group of people you’d rather not know."

"Concentrated and intense, it was the silence of a place where secrets come to live for ever."

"You can brace yourself for impact all you want, imagine what the collision will be like, how far you’ll get thrown and how much of you will be left after you land. But when it actually happens, it’s like you never saw it coming."

"I’ll tell them never to hate a person, no matter what they’ve done. No matter how downright evil they are. I’ll tell them it all passes, in time, even the worst things. But only if they let it. Because to hate is to hold on, never to move on. And if you don’t move on, you stay put. And if you stay put, you sink and rot."

"Closure’s a myth invented by Americans"

"Kids grow up, that’s the trouble. They start out looking up to you, then they look through you, then they look down on you."

"Just don’t go expecting a happy ending next time, because the law – like life – is not a movie. Good guys lose. The innocent get convicted, the guilty walk free."

"Everyone dies, and everyone cries. Happens all the time. You’ve just got to accept that. And move on. That’s very important. Always move on. And keep moving."

"No closure, no peace. No peace, no progress."