A Nye of Pheasants

Guilty pleasure lol x Not sure this is as good as the others in the series but still enjoyed it with the multi-stranded plot. A lot of the birding and environmental references feel quite shoe horned in unlike previous iterations. The latter particularly, with over frequent wearied observations about......more

My parents watch all the British mysteries on public television. This felt exactly like one of those series. There are pubs, villages, hunting and some country lanes and gardens. There are constables and slights against people educated “in the colonies”. 😂 I loved the mentions of birds and birding,......more

"A Nye of Pheasants" by Steve Burrows, part of the Birder Murder Mysteries series, unfortunately falls flat on several fronts. As a fan of both birding and mystery novels, I had high hopes for this book, but it failed to deliver the engaging and thrilling experience I was looking forward to. The plo......more

I'm new to this author who was recommended to me by a friend and I'm pleased to say it was a great read. Bird watching police detectives, is I can safely say not a one off but is in fact a genre. Britsh author Graham Hughes's Inspector Faraday is the first that I'm aware of but this is a noble addit......more

I’ve loved every one of Steve Burrows’ books. I can’t recommend them highly enough: the mystery itself, the birding culture, the people, the relationships. I think I’m going to read this again :-)......more