Poisoning Angel

Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beautiful Hélène grows up feeling detached from the nineteenth-century world around her and yet destined for a terrible vocation: to do the work of the Ankou, death’s henchman.

Beginning with the demise of her very own maman, she leaves a trail of devastation with the special soups and cakes she makes – those who taste them never recover. Jean Teulé brings his unique blend of imagination and historical insight to a novel that is both an upbeat portrait of nineteenth-century provincial French life and a startling chronicle of a decades-long killing spree carried out by the most notorious female poisoner in history.

© 2014 Gallic Books (Ebook): 9781908313850

Translators: Melanie Florence

Release date

Ebook: July 10, 2014