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.
The London Eye Mystery
by
Siobhan Dowd
Hardcover: Feb 2008,
336 pages.
Paperback: May 2009,
336 pages.
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 thrillera race against time.
Book Reviews
BookBrowse - Jo Perry
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. Full Review (members only, 835 words).
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,
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