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. 

Mel’s second novel, Miss Hortense and the Last Rites, was published in the UK in July 2026.

A Murder for Miss Hortense and Miss Hortense and the Last Rites can be purchased below.