The London Eye Mystery: Summary and book reviews of The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd, plus links to an excerpt from The London Eye Mystery and a biography of Siobhan Dowd.

Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off – except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are having no luck. Despite their prickly relationship, they overcome their differences to follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin. And ultimately it comes down to Ted, whose brain works in its own very unique way, to find the key to the mystery. This is an unput-downable spine-tingling thriller–a race against time.

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A boy's spectacular and mystifying into-thin-air disappearance from a sealed chamber high above London launches this determined and thoughtful page-turner for middle-grade readers .... While the mysterious disappearance is intriguing, what Ted must do to understand it is truly exciting: To discover how and why his cousin vanished from a sealed pod, Ted breaches the closed chamber of his psyche and invites the world and the reader in.  (Reviewed by Jo Perry).

Full Review (737 words).

Media Reviews

Publishers Weekly Starred review. Grabs readers from the beginning and doesn't let go.   Booklist Starred Review. Everything rings true here, the family relationships, the quirky connections of Ted’s mental circuitry, and, perhaps most surprisingly, the mystery.   Kirkus Reviews Starred Review. This is a well-constructed puzzle, and mystery lovers will delight in connecting the clues.   School Library Journal Starred Review. A dense mystery tied together with fully fleshed out characters and a unique narrator.   The Times (London) - Nicolette Jones Fans of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime may dislike this novel for being too similar .... But the echoes have to be forgiven because Dowd’s story grips the reader from the opening chapter,

Recent Reader Reviews

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The London Eye Mystery-Siobhán Dowd
The London Eye Mystery is of the adventure/comedy genre. It is a very exciting book about an autistic child solving the mystery of his cousin Salims disappearance on the London Eye.Along with his sister Kats help Ted Sparks ' magnificent brain...   Read More

Rated of 5 by csurtz
The London Eye Mystery
A very good book for middle-school readers. Very interesting with a surprising twist. Look out Hardy Boys-here come Kat and Ted Sparks!

Rated of 5 by Bookclub77NY
The London eye mystery
A great book with a unique ending that I adored. The characters themselves couldn't have been better! Thanks to Ted I know a lot of new facts! I suggest reading this book!

Rated of 5 by Eoghan
london eye mystery
A book you could read again and again without getting bored

Rated of 5 by bob
The London Eye Mystery
Do you like a good mystery if yes this is the book for you! It is exiting and you can not stop reading! This is the best mystery I have ever read. You should read!

Rated of 5 by Boggie B
The london eye mystery
Very page-turning and very compulsive.

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