Giveaway Days: WHERE THE SHADOWS LIE by Michael Ridpath

Annnnd we have a winnah! The four new titles from Pocket Black Lizard go to: 

Matthew McBride! 

Congratulations to Matthew. He was one of six to correctly identify WHO DAT? as Ken Bruen. The first clue was taken from A WHITE ARREST, while the second clue came from THE GUARDS.

The winner of today's round of WHO DAT? will win Michael Ridpath's newest novel, due for release next week. But why wait for that when you can win the book here? And you do want this book: The early reviews (Kirkus, Literary Review, The London Times, et. al.) are gushing over this one. Here's the skinny:

An ancient saga. A modern legend. A secret worth killing for.

Amid Iceland’s wild, volcanic landscape, rumors swirl of an ancient manuscript inscribed with a long-lost saga about a ring of terrible power. A rediscovered saga alone would be worth a fortune, but, if the rumors can be believed, there is something much more valuable about this one. Something worth killing for. Something that will cost Professor Agnar Haraldsson his life.

Untangling murder from myth is Iceland-born, Boston-raised detective Magnus Jonson. On loan to the Icelandic Police Force for his own protection after a Massachusetts drug cartel puts a bounty on his head, Magnus is eager work the Haraldsson case, a rare lethal crime for the island nation.  But his unorthodox investigative technique soon gets him into trouble with his more traditional superiors, intensifying his mixed feelings about returning to his native country—a place of tangled family loyalties haunted by his father’s unsolved murder—after nearly two decades. And as Magnus is about to discover, the past casts a long shadow in Iceland.

Binding Iceland’s landscape and history, secrets and superstitions in a strikingly original plot in the tradition of Arnaldur Indridason and Henning Mankell, Where the Shadows Lie is a heart-pounding new series from an established master.

Okay, by now you should know the drill: Guess what author wrote the following passage, leave your guess and contact info in a comment. I'll draw a name at random from all of the those who correctly guess WHO DAT wrote this:

"You!" she said, and her voice was suddenly angry, frightened, tortured. "I'll drink a toast to you, Doc darling!"

"Why, how kind of you," Doc said, and he touched his glass to hers. "What will it be!"

"To you! To you and our successful getaway!"

"And to you, my dear," Doc said. "And another such victory."

Now if you find this passage a little hard to pin down, and I hope you do, I'll give you a BIG clue to identifying the author by telling you that the name of this book (minus "The") is found  in the excerpt. And if you recognize this passage without the clue, good for you. You are well up on your classic crime fiction.

Good luck!

UPDATE 7/25/2011:  THIS ROUND OF WHO DAT? IS CONCLUDED.