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
Burrows intertwines avians with the classic whodunit in a completely original way.
Audubon (U.S.)
DESIGNATED
ZEISS FIELD NATURALIST
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.)
Fellow: RCGS
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
EXPLORERS CLUB
Member International
Canadian Chapter
​WELCOME to 2026 ​
and a fond farewell to last year
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Among the many highlights of an eventful 2025 was my election in November as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Sincere thanks to Dr. Lynn Moorman for sponsoring my application (I hear her nomination letter has been shortlisted for a creative fiction award!). I’m genuinely honoured to be a part of RCGS, and I am very much looking forward to becoming involved in the society’s events and activities as time goes on.
A series of speaking engagements and events throughout 2025 had me crisscrossing the country, and indeed the continent. I was fortunate to visit Iceland and Greenland again as onboard naturalist with Adventure Canada, and I was also privileged to lead a number of birding walks in my capacity as Zeiss Field Naturalist. My travels culminated with a month-long trip to Asia and Australia to conduct research for my new book, do some birding, and ensure my fluid intake was being maintained!
The year ended with the terrific news that I’d been elected as a Member International of the prestigious Explorer’s Club. Huge thanks to members (and friends!) Trevor Wallace and Milbry Polk for offering to be my sponsors. I’m excited to be associated with this amazing organization and look forward to participating in Canadian chapter events in the future.
If last year proved to be a wild ride, this year promises to be just as much fun. I will be out on the circuit promoting A Deceit of Lapwings; Book 9 in the Birder Murder Series. At the same time, I’ll be working towards the release of Book 10: A Murmuration of Starlings, in fall, 2026. I’ve also been asked to contribute a monograph for the Pelee Island Bird Observatory series Birders on Birds, submit a short story for an anthology, and write an article for a major Canadian journal. Travel is also on the agenda, with trips to Mexico, the UK and BC already scheduled and a couple of others, including a pretty big one, potentially in the works.
So all in all, a pretty busy year ahead. As Ric Ocasek of the Cars once sang; Let the Good Times Roll
A Deceit of Lapwings
Three murder scenes; two causes of death; one body
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UPCOMING EVENTS
March 20 , 2026
12:30 p.m.
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Women's Art Association of Canada
Peterborough Branch
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For details, please see:
https://www.facebook.com/WomensArtAssociationofCanadaPeterboroughChapter/
April 22, 2026
6:30 pm
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Whitby Public Library
Rossland Branch
701 Rossland Rd East
Whitby, ONL1N 8Y9
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Presentation, Q &A
Book Sales & Signing
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further details t.b.a
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
