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
NORTH AMERICAN PUBLICATION DAY
​​AUGUST 26th, 2025
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Stay tuned for launch party details!
A Deceit of Lapwings
Three murder scenes; two causes of death; one body
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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 this time around 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.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
July 3- 24, 2025
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Adventure Canada
Onboard Naturalist/Author
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Iceland Circumnavigation
and
Iceland to Greenland:
In the Wake of the Vikings
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August 10 , 2025
9:30 a.m.
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Oshawa Public Library
ZEISS Guided Bird Walk
Second Marsh
New Birders Welcome
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Sign up and further details
Oshawa Public Library
McLaughlin Branch
August 19, 2025
6:00 pm
Author Interview
with host
Andrew Varga
Followed by Q & A
Book Sales and Signing
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Sign up and details at
Oshawa Public Library McLaughlin Branch
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
