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The Golden Valkyrie | 
 enlarge | Author: Iris Johansen
Creator: Angela Brazil
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 218910
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1602834229
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781602834224
ASIN: 1602834229
Publication Date: July 29, 2008
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Product Description
A Classic Romance--Now Available on Audio--by the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Countdown! Feisty, beautiful private detective Honey Winston had been duped into invading Prince Rubinoff's hotel suite hidden in a room service cart. When smoke flushed her from her hiding place, Honey confronted the mocking prince the gossip columns called "Lusty Lance". But the man behind the glittering facade was an artist who created exquisite paintings the world would never see. Could Honey's love help Lance escape his glided prison? Presented unabridged on 5 CDs, at a great price!
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 avid reader August 8, 2008
Jean Dolce (New York)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a reprint of a very old story. It is also one of a series.
You should really try to read them all - as they compliment each other. Characters are revisited and it really is fun. I cannot remember all the other titles but I am sure there are other readers of this series who could.
 Publisher's Note August 15, 2006
Fast Reader (NY)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Feisty and beautiful private detective Honey Winston had been duped by a client into invading Prince Rubinoff's hotel suite by concealing herself in a too-small room service cart. When cigar smoke flushed her from her hiding place, Honey rose to face the mocking prince the gossip columns called "Lusty Lance".
But the man she came to know as she looked behind the glittering facade was an artist filled with longing, a man whose need was expressed in exquisite paintings the world would never see. Honey gently taught him to trust her and tried to share the dream he saw. Would the gift of her love allow Lance to escape his gilded prison for the haven of her heart?
Finding love in unexpected places September 2, 2008
Helen Hancox (Essex, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The Golden Valkyrie" is a reissue of a book first published in 1984 and, for this reader at least, it showed its age. I've read several books by Iris Johansen over the years and so picked up this book expecting a similar sort of tale. I was surprised to find myself reading what seemed like a rather average Mills & Boon story. It even had a Foreign Prince and a Sheik, all the classic tropes from 80s romances. There were many aspects of the plot that were completely unrealistic and simplistic and the central romance seemed very unlikely to me.
There were some good points to this book. Johansen wrote the hero, Prince Rubinoff, in such a way that despite being a womanising rake I found myself quite liking him. His relationship with his cousin Alex was well written. Unfortunately the heroine, Honey Winston, was a bit too fluffy for me, and seemed a remarkably hopeless Private Investigator at the beginning of the story. When discovered hiding in a food-serving trolley (I kid you not), she immediately tells the person whose apartment she was about to burgle the name of her client - absolutely hopeless! Her naivete was meant to be endearing but to this reader it was just a bit stupid.
This is a much shorter book than the others I have read by Johansen, with a large font and wide line spacing it's just under 300 pages. It's OK for an airport or beach read but it's clear to this reader that Johansen honed her writing skills a great deal after writing this book.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book Helen Hancox 2008
 90% of the readers could probably write a better book. August 14, 2008
Leigh (Washington state)
I hope this was an old, recycled book because the author is usually a better writer than this. Honey is a tough, frail, stupid, smart, savvy, and naive heroine in bewildering succession depending on what Ms Johansen needed to further her trite and implausible plot. Gave it 2 stars because the hero at least had a bit of depth and appeal and I actually finished the book before tossing it in the recycle bin.
Glad it was a reprint August 14, 2008
DIYdivawannabe (Texas)
I was glad when I rechecked the original print date and saw that this was a reprint. The story line wasn't bad, but overall the story itself was quite lame.
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