Dorothy Dunnett Books in Order

Returning to a Scotland shaken by invasion, Francis Crawford of Lymond must clear his name and outplay men who call him traitor. It opens the series with feuds, schemes, and a hero as brilliant as he is dangerous.

Sent to France on a covert mission, Lymond must protect the young Mary Queen of Scots without losing himself in disguise. Court spectacle, espionage, and divided loyalties turn the novel into a dazzling game of masks.

Lymond heads to Malta to watch the Knights of St John face the Turkish threat, only to find rot inside the order itself. Faith, manipulation, and a terrifying private enemy make this a brutal turning point in the series.

Opera singer Tina Rossi sneaks away during the Edinburgh Festival to meet her secret lover and instead finds death waiting. Johnson Johnson offers help, then sweeps her into a yachting mystery tied to secret research.

Lymond hunts through the Ottoman world for his kidnapped child while serving on a mission to the Sultan. Personal desperation and international intrigue merge in one of the series' darkest and most relentless adventures.

Sarah Cassells travels to Ibiza after her father's violent death and refuses to believe he killed himself. Cooking jobs, wealthy friends, and Holy Week rituals become the backdrop to a sharp, twisty hunt for the truth.

In the Bahamas, Dr B. MacRannoch is drawn into espionage after a poisoned British agent needs urgent help. Johnson Johnson's arrival brings answers, but also more suspects, more confusion, and more danger.

Trying to outrun grief and scandal, Lymond travels to Muscovy and enters the violent court of Ivan the Terrible. Russia offers fresh campaigns and new schemes, but the past follows him all the way north.

Ruth Russell's Roman holiday turns ugly when her lover's stolen camera is linked to a headless corpse in the zoo park. Johnson Johnson joins the chase as fashion gossip gives way to something far more sinister.

In 1557 Lymond returns to France to lead forces in Scotland's struggle against England, but battlefield success only sharpens the danger around him. The final book drives toward war, family truth, and the last moves in a very old game.

Freshly hired nanny Joanna Emerson takes charge of a newborn heir and walks straight into a kidnapping plot. Johnson Johnson knows more than he says, but that hardly stops bullets and danger closing in.

In eleventh century Scotland and Orkney, Thorfinn grows from hard edged young earl to a ruler with a claim on a kingdom. Dunnett reimagines the historical Macbeth as a brilliant, dangerous man shaped by war, sea power, and ruthless politics.

Make up artist Rita Geddes heads to Madeira for what should be a glamorous job and ends up probing her mentor's murder. Johnson Johnson is on the trail too, and the island setting quickly turns lethal.

In 1460 Bruges, clever young Nicholas van der Poele rises from dyer's apprentice to player in a far bigger game. Carnival riots, Alpine danger, and a leap into trade and power make this a swaggering start to the series.

Backed by Cosimo de' Medici, Nicholas heads from Florence toward Trebizond as the Ottoman threat closes in. A runaway stepdaughter, a Genoese rival, and disasters at every port turn trade into a race against time.

Written with Alastair Dunnett to accompany David Paterson's photographs, this book travels through Highland landscapes, islands, legends, and local history. It mixes personal memory with a strong sense of place.

In Cyprus, Nicholas van der Poele is rich, widowed, and surrounded by plots. Torn between rival claimants, mercenary schemes, and enemies at every turn, he has to survive a brutal political game that keeps getting more personal.

Executive secretary Wendy Helmann reaches Marrakesh on business and lands in takeover intrigue, kidnapping, and murder. With Rita Geddes causing chaos and Johnson Johnson in the mix, the chase barrels into the High Atlas.

Opera star Tina Rossi comes to Edinburgh to meet her scientist lover and finds a corpse instead. Aboard Johnson Johnson's yacht Dolly, she follows the mystery west toward Rum, where a sailing race becomes a fight to stay alive.

Back in Venice and under attack from rivals, Nicholas sails toward Africa in search of wealth, allies, and advantage. The journey opens onto slave routes, Saharan trade, and his increasingly charged battle with Gelis van Borselen.

Nicholas returns from Africa to a glittering, dangerous Europe and follows Gelis into Scotland, Cairo, and Venice. What begins as a hunt for truth about a child turns into a ruthless chase through courts, canals, and conspiracies.

Having taken back his infant son, Nicholas de Fleury launches his biggest scheme yet, beginning with a perilous journey to Iceland. Trade, statecraft, and his private war with Gelis collide in a novel full of ice, ambition, and revenge.

Exiled in icy Danzig after the disasters of Scotland, Nicholas de Fleury is pulled back into trade, diplomacy, and war. As Gelis hunts the truth about his past, old enemies and a ghost from earlier books move in for the kill.

In the final House of Niccolò novel, Nicholas de Fleury moves through Scotland, Burgundy, France, and England while long buried truths close in. His power, family, and very sense of self are tested as the series heads toward a hard won reckoning.

When chef Sarah Cassells learns her father died violently on Ibiza, she refuses to accept a verdict of suicide. Her search leads through jet set parties, art world lies, and a macabre Holy Week climax.

Dr B. MacRannoch is in the Bahamas with her father when an arsenic poisoned British agent collapses into her care. Multiple suspects, espionage, and Johnson Johnson's well timed interventions turn the trip into a dangerous puzzle.

Astronomer Ruth Russell expects a quiet stay in Rome until a stolen camera and a headless corpse pull her into danger. With Johnson Johnson nearby, a case that starts in fashion circles opens onto something much deadlier.

This slim collection gathers Dorothy Dunnett's talks, interviews, and articles from the 1990s and early 2000s. It offers a direct look at how she thought about research, writing, readers, and the worlds behind her novels.