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.
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.)
Burrows intertwines avians with the classic whodunit in a completely original way.
Audubon (U.S.)
DESIGNATEDZEISS FIELD NATURALIST
A NOTE ABOUT SOURCES
One of the great things about writing this series is the number of fascinating people I get to interview as part of my research. Among the standouts for A Deceit of Lapwings were the former head of a British intelligence agency, an astronaut and the world's leading expert in a cutting-edge branch of DNA research. One appears in the book under their own name, one features under a pseudonym and the other remains anonymous.
As for which is which, ah well, that will have to remain a mystery - until you read the book of course!
UPCOMING EVENTS
September 11 , 2025
7:00 p.m. (Doors open 6:30 p.m.)
​​
Delighted to announce we’ve managed to arrange a last-minute appearance with
Muskoka Authors Association at
Bracebridge United Church
Seminar Room (Lower Level)
46 Dominion St
Bracebridge, ON P1L 2A5
All welcome
Hope to see you there
September 14, 2025
3:00 pm
Very happy to announce the long-standing tradition of a book launch at
Different Drummer Books
will continue for the ninth consecutive title.
Based on previous events I am predicting
a) a short talk/reading from A Deceit of Lapwings
and
b) cake
(please note: timing your arrival for part b) only
is just wrong!)​
See this nifty promo poster for further details
Usually a full house but we can always make room for more, so hope to see you there.
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
