Death is his business. It's about to become more than that.

When recently widowed undertaker Melvin Peters finds a man murdered in his own basement mortuary, he can’t help taking it personally: the victim is an old enemy. Worse, he was supposed to be dead already, the clue being he was in a mortuary fridge. 
DI Janice Evans, Melvin’s teenage crush turned investigating detective, seals off his workplace as a crime scene, threatening his already flat-lining business with bankruptcy. With two young children and a mortgage unimpressed by grief, Melvin sees only two choices: watch everything collapse or take matters into his own hands. He starts digging into the victim’s associates, including a bully-turned-businessman with political ambitions and a long-term employee nursing a grudge. But when Melvin makes a crucial breakthrough, his elation turns to despair after one disastrous mistake puts his family in the sights of someone prepared to make inconvenient people disappear for good.
Darkly comic, character-driven British crime for readers who like their mysteries funny in places, dangerous in others, and never quite cosy. 

Mortified will be published in November 2026.