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Writer and closet true-crime nut

Kathryn Harrison: Writer and closet true-crime nut

By Amy Sutherland

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  March 11, 2012

No wonder bestselling writer Kathryn Harrison likes fairy tales, not the ones where the girl gets the prince in the end, but the ones where the prince kills the girl. Her life has at times resembled a Grimm’s fairy tale: abandoned by young parents, brought up by very elderly grandparents, an incestuous relationship with her father, the latter recounted in her memoir “The Kiss.’’ Harrison discusses her most recent novel, “Enchantment,’’ 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Boston Public Library.

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