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A new genre is born: the "birder murder". - Sunday Times Crime Club (U.K.)

Welcome to the web site of award-winning author 

Steve 
Burrows

creator of the best-selling
Birder Murder Mystery series featuring DCI Domenic Jejeune. 

Burrows intertwines avians with the classic whodunit in a completely original way.
Audubon (U.S.)

High quality, nuanced mystery fiction.
Publishers Weekly - Starred Review

Skillfully written, full of moral ambiguities and artful puzzles Kirkus - Starred Review

Irresistible…This is a marvelous series of books 10,000 Birds blog (U.S.)

ZEISS FIELD NATURALIST

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BOOK 9 - EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW

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Here's a sneak peek at the 9th
Birder Murder Mystery:

A Deceit of Lapwings 

Three murder scenes; two causes of death; one body.

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RELEASE DATE: TBA (Spring 2025 ish)

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About the Title:

Lapwings, like Kildeer and  a number of other plover species, feign injury in a wing-dragging display to lead predators away from their nests.
This practice has earned them the collective noun
A Deceit of Lapwings  

UPCOMING EVENTS

April 26. 2025

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

 

CANADIAN INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY

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BLUE HERON BOOKS
62 Brock Street West
Uxbridge, Ontario L9P 1N1
905-852-4282

 

Drop in for a chat and book signing

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Details at 

www.blueheronbooks.com

 

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April 29, 2025
10:00 a. m.

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Beaver Valley Association 
for Lifelong Learning
L E Shore Memorial Library
173 Bruce St. S, Thornbury, ON

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Slide Show Presentation
Q & A
Book Sales and Signing

 

Details at
SPRING SERIES: Exploring the Arctic - Wildlife, Wilderness, Culture. S – Beaver Valley Association for Lifelong Learning

 

April 30, 2025
6:30 p.m.

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Humber Bay Library
Marina Del Ray
2261 Lake Shore Blvd 

Etobicoke, ON

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Slide Show Presentation
Q & A
Book Sales and Signing

 

Details at
Author Talks & Lectures : Toronto Public Library

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POETIC JUSTICE

On my Adventure Canada cruise to Greenland, I found to my cost that it doesn't pay to trifle with the queen of Can Lit.

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TV OPTION RENEWED FOR THE BIRDER MURDERS 

Award-winning Canadian production company Shaftesbury Films (Murdoch Mysteries) and BAFTA-winning U.K. producer Company Pictures (Wolf Hall) have renewed their option to develop the Birder Murder Mysteries for TV 

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Represented by
Westwood Creative Artists (WCA)


 

Agent: Meg Wheeler

meg@wcaltd.com
416-964-3302 ex.233

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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
10 Bloomsbury Street
London, WC1B 3SR, UK

 

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