An award winning writer, Mel’s debut novel, A Murder for Miss Hortense, is the first in a new crime series starring Miss Hortense, a retired Caribbean nurse from the Windrush generation.
A Murder for Miss Hortense will be published 12th June 2025.
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A Murder for Miss Hortense
Death has come to her doorstep . . .
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'It's Murder She Wrote as you've never seen it before'
– SIR LENNY HENRY
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