Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles
 

Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles

by Dorothy Dunnett

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... (read more)

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Granted, there is, as a friend said to me, an element of soap opera in the way everything is resolved by the end. The journey Dunnett takes you on to get there stays true to the voice she's developed throughout the series. It's complicated, there are things that are never explained, ends are left dangling, yet, at the end, it almost all seemed worth it.

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