DOROTHY DUNNETT was born in Dunfermline, Scotland. She is the author of the Francis Crawford of Lymond novels; the House of Niccolo novels; seven mysteries; King Hereafter, an epic novel about Macbeth; and the text of The Scottish Highlands, a book of photographs by David Paterson, on which she collaborated with her husband, Sir Alastair Dunnett. In 1992 she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. Lady Dunnett died in 2001.
"Exciting, dangerous, fascinating."
--The Boston Globe
"[Dunnett's] hero. . .is as polished and perceptive as Lord Peter
Wimsey and as resourceful as James Bond."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Vivid, engaging, densely plotted. . . . Dunnett is a master of
suspense and misdirection."
--The New York Times "A masterpiece of historical
fiction."
--The Washington Post "[Lymond] is arguably the perfect
romantic hero."
--The Guardian
"Dorothy Dunnett is one of the greatest talespinners since Dumas .
. . breathlessly exciting."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Dunnett is a name to conjure with. Her work exemplifies the best
the genre can offer."
--Christian Science Monitor "Ingenious and exceptional . . .
its effect brilliant, its pace swift and colorful and its
multi-linear plot spirited and absorbing."
--Boston Herald "Dunnett evokes the sixteenth century with
an amazing richness of allusion and scholarship, while keeping a
firm control on an intricately twisting narrative. She has another
more unusual quality . . . an ability to check her imagination with
irony, to mix high romance with wit."
--Sunday Times (London) "A very stylish blend of high romance
and high camp. Her hero, the enigmatic Lymond, [is] Byron crossed
with Lawrence of Arabia. . . . He moves in an aura of intrigue,
hidden menace and sheer physical daring."
--Times Literary Supplement (London) "With shrewd psychological
insight and a rare gift of narrative and descriptive power, Dorothy
Dunnett reveals the color, wit, lushness . . . and turbulent
intensity of one of Europe's greatest eras."
--Raleigh News and Observer
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