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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
June 2007

ISBN
  
978-0-9551094-6-1

Author
  
Jessica Gregson

Genre
  
Novel

OCLC
  
73956072

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Publisher
  
PaperBooks

Pages
  
304

Originally published
  
June 2007

Page count
  
304

Country
  
United Kingdom

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The Gone‑Away World, The Unvanquished, Blood Promise, Windswept House: A Vatican N, Kiln People

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The Angel Makers is a 2007 novel written by Jessica Gregson based on the true story of The Angel Makers of Nagyrév, two Hungarian women who sold arsenic to unhappily married women to kill their husbands. It was published by PaperBooks.

Contents

Gregson wrote The Angel Makers while working for the Home Office. While reading an encyclopedia on serial killers, Gregson saw an entry for the story of a group of women in Hungary who turned on their men during World War I.

Plot summary

During World War I, the men of a Hungarian village leave to fight. In their absence, the women form powerful bonds. Their village is made into a camp for Italian prisoners of war and some women fall for these soldiers. When their men return and begin to mistreat them, the women become murderous in their fight to keep their freedom.

References

The Angel Makers Wikipedia