Series: Johnson Johnson
by Author Dorothy Dunnett
Dolly and the Starry Bird (1982)
These mysteries, what will all the wonderful characters, action, humor, and romance, would make wonderful movies. This one, maybe because its set in Italy, forcefully reminds me of The Tourist. In a good way. In this book the protagonist is astronomer Ruth Russell, doing a research stint in Rome....
Dolly and the Singing Bird (1982)
[7/10] extra star for being written by one of my favorite authorsBefore becoming a writer, Dorothy Dunnett was a voracious reader. According to her biography, when she complained to her husband that she has run out of reading material, he asked her why she doesn’t write her own stories. The resul...
Ibiza Surprise (1994)
Sarah Cassells, the narrator of Ibiza Surprise (originally published as Dolly and the Cookie Bird, as Sarah is a cook) is one of the most likeable heroines of a Johnson Johnson mystery to date. She's fun funny, just the right amount of frivolous, and a wonderful narrator. The story takes place in...
Dolly and the Bird of Paradise (1984)
Having read all of Dorothy Dunnett's six-volume Lymond Chronicles, eight-volume House of Niccolo series and her standalone novel, King Hereafter, I suppose it was only a matter of time before I picked up one of her Johnson Johnson mystery novels. I wasn't entirely sure that I was starting with th...
Dolly and the Doctor Bird (1982)
Operation Nassau starts promisingly, with a main character who is observant and very good in a crisis. A woman who has chosen to place her medical career above all else (though driven there to a degree by her eccentric father, who wants her to get married and give his clan heirs), she is perhaps ...
Dolly and the Nanny Bird (1983)
Ugh. Hard to believe this is the same author who wrote very absorbing medieval historicals with such grace and intelligence. This is cheap James Bond and deadly tedious. There were 8 of these, of which this is the 7th. All are apparently now out of print and good riddance. Besides being ankle-dee...