Astrid believes that one of the Netherlands' most notorious criminals - a man who's serving a life sentence for multiple murders - wants her dead. In "Crime Family," Keefe profiles Astrid Holleeder, a Dutch woman who's "an exile in her own city" of Amsterdam. It's an excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing. The articles "reflect some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial," Keefe writes in a preface to the book. Rogues collects a dozen of Keefe's reported pieces for The New Yorker, the magazine he's been writing for since 2006. An investigative reporter, he's made his career out of detective stories, and his last two books - Say Nothing, about the Northern Ireland conflict, and Empire of Pain, about the Sackler family and the drug Ox圜ontin - won critical acclaim for his thoughtful deep dives into complex subjects. You get the feeling that Keefe can relate. Then he adds: "Also, it's a fun detective story." If he got cheated, he tells Keefe, he wants whoever is responsible to pay. In the first essay in Rogues, the new collection from journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a wine collector is explaining why he's determined to find out the truth about the possibly counterfeit bottles he bought years before.
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