The Aladdin Trial: A Burton & Lamb Case

By Abi Silver

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lightning Books
• Release date: May 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781785630767

Abi Silver

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.

Reviews for The Aladdin Trial

[pgchuis · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this book even more than the first. It concerns the death of a woman who falls from a high floor in the hospital where she has had her bunions removed. A Syrian cleaner Ahmad is charged with her murder, even though it is by no means clear that she was pushed.Constance and Judith represent Ahmad and help the police get to the bottom of things. The timeline was more linear here than in the first instalment, which I prefer. It took a while for the "Aladdin" element to emerge, and again it was at the edge of reality/speculation. My only quibble was the way the victim's treatment was private one minute and on the NHS the next...?