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Kate Carlisle leads Connie Archer, Daryl Wood Gerber, Karen MacInerney, Leslie Budewitz, and Ovidia Yu in a lively conversation about culinary mysteries. They discuss how food can shape setting, character, and plot, and how recipes and red herrings work together to create stories readers savor.

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