The Aladdin Trial

A new Burton and Lamb legal thrillerA SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB PICK'An intense and compelling legal drama – quite wonderful' Geoffrey WansellWhen an elderly artist plunges one hundred feet to her death at a London hospital, the police sense foul playThe 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.