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Hello in today's program, crime novels set in unusual places, from Saudi Arabia to the Shetland Isles.

Inspector Jimmy Perez arrived in Walsy on the first ferry. He was there at Lakso, the terminal on the west of Shetland mainland, waiting on the pier when the boat

arrived from Simbister. Simbister was a working harbour, and seven of the eight pelagic fishing boats

in Shetland put in there. For this reason, walsy folk didn't need to sell cups of tea or hand-knitted

mittens to make a living. They kept up the old traditions of hospitality and knitting,

but money didn't come into it. Not your everyday crime scene then. More from Jimmy Perez's

creator Anne Cleaves, who's also responsible for the Northumberland-based Vera Stanhope series

later in the program. And we talked to one of the biggest movers and shakers in the

publishing industry about why he's defying both the economic downturn and popular wisdom

by setting up a brand-new publishing house that embraces the e-book. But first, another maverick,

the American satirist who comes with an impeccable political pedigree,

a son of the Republicans' one-time answer to John and Jackie Kennedy,

National Review founder William F. Buckley and his wife Patricia.

Christopher Buckley once used his considerable talents to put words into the mouth of George Bush, Sr.,

and has since been responsible for a

series of brilliant send-ups of the political scene stateside, including Thank You for Smoking,

also made into a film, which skewered the tobacco lobby and Booms Day, zooming in on the

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