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
BOOK 9 - EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW
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
May 14, 2025
6:00 p.m.
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Quinte Field Naturalists
Emmanuel United Church
Foxboro, ON
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Slideshow Presentation
Book Sales and Signing
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May 17 , 2025
2:30 p.m.
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Presqu Isle Audubon ​​​
Festival Of The Birds
​TREC Auditorium
Presq Isle, PA
USA
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Slideshow Presentation
Book Sales and Signing
Details at
May 21, 2025
7:00 pm
Don Mills Library
888 Lawrence Avenue East,
Toronto, ON M3C 1P6
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Presentation and Q & A
Book Sales and Signing
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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
