Streaming Birder Murder

Description

Birder Murder is coming to the Southwest Harbor Library and the Wendell Gilley Museum on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 5:30pm. We’ll be joined online by Steve Burrows, a journalist and birder who combined those two skill sets to write the Bird Murder Mysteries. The first book in that series, “A Siege of Bitterns,” won the Crime Writers of Canada award for Best First Novel, and was selected as one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of the year. The seventh Birder Murder mystery, “A Foreboding of Petrels,” was published in September 2022. And the series has been optioned for a TV series by Shaftesbury, the award winning production company behind the global hit TV series Murdoch Mysteries, in partnership with the BAFTA-winning U.K. producer Company Pictures which was responsible for “Wolf Hall,” “Inspector George Gently” and many other TV shows. This will be his first author event in Maine.

Steve joins us online for a wide-ranging conversation with the directors of the library and the museum, touching on the idiosyncrasies of birders, writers, and Steve himself, along with writing process, his characters, and the evolution of his books.

Sign up at www.wendellgilleymuseum.org/events. This program is free but registration is required. To learn more the author and his books, visit www.steveburrows.org