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
A NYE OF PHEASANTS - OUT NOW
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Promo Season HIghlights​
My fabulous promo season is drawing to a close with just a couple more events in late July. Thanks to everyone who made this season so special - highlights
included:
Different Drummer Book Launch
Independent Bookstore Day
with Blue Heron & Booklore
Springsong on Pelee Island
PEC Bird banding Tour &
Lynn Pickering Interview
Conversations on Conservation
with rare Cambridge
Acadia Birding Festival in Maine
Henderson NV Bird Walk
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(with a special mention to Zeiss for their amazing support every step of the way)
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Add in a couple of other interviews and appearances, and writing a new book as well, and its been a busy old couple of months!
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Now it's a couple of weeks to recharge the batteries and then it's off on a month-long trip to Greenland and the High Arctic aboard the Ocean Endeavour as a member of the Adventure Canada staff.
Stay tuned for updates!​
UPCOMING EVENTS
July 25, 2024
7:00 p.m.
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DWIGHT LIBRARY
1014 Dwight Beach Rd.
DWIGHT, ON
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Slideshow Presentation
Book Sales and Signing
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for details see
JULY 26, 2024
11:00 a.m.
BAYSVILLE LIBRARY
10 University St.
Baysville, ON
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Slideshow Presentation
Book Sales and Signing
August 3 -27, 2024
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ADVENTURE CANADA
OCEAN ENDEAVOUR
Greenland and High Arctic
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Onboard Naturalist and Author
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POETIC JUSTICE
On the recent 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 for 2024.
