DS Mel Silver

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DS Mel Silver is a fictional character in the TV show Waking The Dead on the BBC. DS Mel Silver is played by Claire Goose who works with a CID team. She joined the team in season 1.

Much like Grace, Mel freely questions Boyd if she believes he is looking in the wrong direction in a case. She was close to everyone on the team, especially [[Frankie Wharton|Frankie. She was killed in "Shadowplay" and appeared in archive footage in "Towers of Silence". In the sixth series, her death came back to haunt the Cold Case Unit with a mysterious pendant being sent to the office, with the sender claiming it belonged to Mel. It subsequently emerged that she was secretly working on a case with an American 'war' expert, this is explained in 'Yahrzeit'.