There may be nothing new under the sun, but writers still create refreshingly new characters and stories using the old cliches. The small-town policeman is reinvented in every novel, and the sidekick can be a cat or the mother-in-law. How do writers remake the old into something new? Leslie will address this question on a panel at the New England Crime Bake, moderated by Edith Maxwell, with co-panelists, Bruce Coffin and Lisa Lieberman.