Happy World Book Day! This day is all about celebrating books and authors, and so it’s absolutely perfect that today I’m sharing with you something really exciting: the final cover for my upcoming book The Guggenheim Mystery!
The Guggenheim Mystery is a story I’ve been working on for quite a while. It’s the first book that I’ve written that isn’t about Daisy or Hazel at all – it’s not even set in the 1930s. Instead, it’s the sequel to the wonderful Siobhan Dowd’s classic children’s book The London Eye Mystery.
Siobhan created her detective Ted Spark and his family in The London Eye Mystery in 2007. She always meant to write another story about him, but tragically she died of cancer before she could even begin planning it, when The London Eye Mystery had barely been published.
I think The London Eye Mystery is one of the best children’s mystery stories ever written, and I was proud to write the introduction to its new edition last year. I’m even prouder to now have written its sequel, The Guggenheim Mystery, which sees Ted, Kat and Mum visit Salim and Aunt Gloria in New York – where they encounter a shocking art theft at the famous Guggenheim Museum that will have consequences for the whole family.
I’m also a huge fan of David Dean’s iconic cover for The London Eye Mystery, and when I saw his cover for The Guggenheim Mystery it brought genuine tears to my eyes.
And now you can see why!
I’m delighted and honoured to be working with the Siobhan Dowd Trust to carry on Siobhan’s legacy, and I very much hope you enjoy The Guggenheim Mystery. It’s going to be published in hardback on the 3rd of August – which means that if you haven’t read The London Eye Mystery yet, you’ve still got five months to prepare yourself for its sequel.
Enjoy World Book Day!
