A great round-up of fellow Dunnett fans. Her writing was exquisite. Lymond Chronicles and Niccolo Rising (both series) have lead characters that are compelling and a bit mad. The women are rendered better than any others I've read in historical fiction. And there's swashbuckling!
I have a lot of opinions about why Dunnett wasn't more widely-known in her own time — most of my rant has to do with the fact her writing was categorised as romance thanks to sexism in the publishing industry at the time. (Or maybe even still ahem ahem "chick lit" ahem.)
But if you haven't yet dipped into her work, give the first book of either of those series a try. You're in for a hell of an adventure. Heart-pounding fights, epic scenes, and yes, some romance, but not at all the flowers-and-hearts type you're probably used to.
Certainly if the early Lymond covers were anything to go by. But then she had re-written the rules about what historical fiction was and the publishers hadn't caught up. But actually Lymond was a big hit, especially in US - it was later reissues and the House of Niccolo that were under publicised.
A nice summary, if long overdue. Unfortunately they get the Dorothy Dunnett Society website address wrong - it should be dunnettcentral.org and omit entirely my own site, which was the first and which DD collaborated with me on www.dorothydunnett.co.uk