Before posting, each Tripadvisor review goes through an automated tracking system, which collects information, answering the following questions: how, what, where and when. Dead Man's Cove has in many ways the feel of a traditional adventure mystery, with clear-cut villains, clues and false trails and a dramatic climax.

My only gripe is the use of home education as a cover for child slavery, but it does make a useful plot device. With the help of her adopted, brave, three-legged Siberian Huskey, Skye, can she solve all these mysteries?Iove the description in it even though it has hardly any pictures I can still get a perfect clear picture in my mind using the description. Calvin Redfern: “The ink-black figure of a man stood framed against the yellow light with a wolfhound at his side. She starts to follow her uncle when he starts being secretive about his work and where he goes for hours on end, day and night. Dead Man's Cove is the first story in the Laura Marlin Mysteries series, following 11-year-old Laura as she works on becoming an ace detective, inspired by her favourite fictional detective Matt Walker.

But nonetheless, this was a really fun book, and I especially appreciated how Laura is drawn with short hair on the cover -- such a small thing, but 10-year-old me would have instantly lapped Laura up as her hero for that. An absorbing novel that will hold the imagination of young reader and keep them guessing throughout. Something that I thought more deeply/differently about was how looks can be quite deceiving and of how Laura went pass her limits to go solve a mystery by herself and put herself in danger sometimes. And when you’ve had time to enjoy the wildness and the little island, head up the trail and continue to the lighthouse.Dead Man’s Cove won the 2011 Blue Peter Book of the Year award and was short-listed for Children’s Book of the Year at the Galaxy National Book Awards. It is a very pretty small beach with tree-covered slopes on two sides, a cliff on one side, and the beautiful blue ocean in front.