The Aladdin Trial

A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB PICK 'An intense and compelling legal drama - quite wonderful' Geoffrey Wansell When an elderly artist plunges one hundred feet to her death at a London hospital, the police sense foul play The hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee, is arrested for her murder. He protests his innocence, but why has he given the woman the story of Aladdin to read, and why does he shake uncontrollably in times of stress? In a spellbinding courtroom confrontation in which they once more grapple with all-too-possible developments in artificial intelligence, they uncover not only the cleaner's secrets, but also those of the artist's family, her lawyer and the hospital. A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller with an AI twist from the author of the acclaimed The Pinocchio Brief.

Abi Silver was born in Leeds and is a lawyer by profession. Her first courtroom drama featuring the legal duo Judith Burton and Constance Lamb, The Pinocchio Brief, was published by Lightning Books in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award. Since then she has published four more in the acclaimed series - The Aladdin Trial, The Cinderella Plan, The Rapunzel Act, and The Midas Game, - and counting. She lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and three sons. . Read more about Abi and her work at www.abisilver.co.uk.