Laura Marlin Mysteries: Dead Man’s Cove

Salford Children's Book Award, 2014

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781444001488

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Winner of the 2011 Blue Peter Book of the Year Award, DEAD MAN’S COVE is the first book in a gripping adventure series about eleven-year-old ace detective, Laura Marlin, from award-winning author Lauren St John.

When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a children’s home to live with her uncle in Cornwall, she longs for a life of excitement just like the characters in her favourite detective novels.

A real life adventure is on hand as she is deposited at her uncle’s spooky house . . . Why does her uncle, Calvin Redfern, forbid her to go to Dead Man’s Cove? What’s the truth about Tariq, the silent Indian boy who lives with the flamboyant Mukthars? Who is J? Who has left the message in a bottle for Laura to discover? Mysteries abound and who better to solve them than Laura Marlin, ace detective?

Accompanied by her trusty companion, Skye, a three-legged husky, the dog she’s always wanted, Laura’s adventures begin in this first captivating mystery.

Reviews

A charming novel
TEENAGE FICTION FOR ALL AGES
I strongly believe that this is a book everyone will love. It is full of adventure and mystery. It's one of those books that you really don't want to put down and you really have to force yourself to stop reading
THE GUARDIAN ONLINE
The Blue Peter Book of the Year Award-winning book is completely cptivating
The Junior Week