The Game of Kings (The Lymond Chronicles #1) by Dorothy Dunnett

Dunnett introduces her irresistible hero Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegrace nobleman of elastic morals and dangerous talents whose tongue is as sharp as his rapier. In 1547 Lymond is returning to his native Scotland, which is threatened by an English invasion. Accused of treason, Lymond leads a band of outlaws in a desperate race to redeem his reputation and save his land.

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Queens' Play (The Lymond Chronicles #2) by Dorothy Dunnett

Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Queen's Play follows Frances Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots. Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact.

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The Disorderly Knights (The Lymond Chronicles #3) by Dorothy Dunnett

The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks. But shortly the swordsman and scholar discovers that the greatest threat to the Knights lies within their own ranks, where various factions vie secretly for master.

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Pawn in Frankincense (The Lymond Chronicles #4) by Dorothy Dunnett

Pawn in Frankincense is the fourth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles. Somewhere within the bejeweled labyrinth of the Ottoman empire, a child is hidden. Now his father, Francis Crawford of Lymond, soldier of fortune and the exiled heir of Scottish nobility, is searching for him while ostensibly engaged on a mission to the Turkish Sultan. At stake is a pawn in a cutthroat game whose gambits include treason, enslavement, and murder.

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The Ringed Castle (The Lymond Chronicles #5) by Dorothy Dunnett

Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. Francis Crawford of Lymond moves to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar. Yet even as Lymond tries to civilize a court that is still frozen in the attitudes of the Middle Ages, forces in England conspire to enlist this infinitely useful man in their own schemes.

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Checkmate (The Lymond Chronicles #6) by Dorothy Dunnett

Cultural > Scotland

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.

Sixth
in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557,
where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an
army against England. But even as the Scots adventurer succeeds
brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of
intense interest to forces on both sides.

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