This month we are very excited to publish
‍The Aladdin Trial, Abi Silver’s follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Pinocchio Brief, currently shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award.

The duo of Judith Burton and Constance Lamb return for another legal investigation with an AI (artificial intelligence) twist. This time, the deceased is an elderly artist who has plunged from an upper floor of a London hospital. The accused is a Syrian refugee employed as the hospital cleaner.

In a spellbinding courtroom confrontation, Burton and Lamb uncover not only the cleaner’s secrets, but also those of the artist’s family, her lawyer and the hospital.

The book is once again a Sunday Times Crime Club pick, and crime critic Geoffrey Wansell hails it as “quite wonderful”.