Another real-life character tour de force from Jean Teule featuring a famous female serial killer from the nineteenth century.Little Helene Jegado had always been different. Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beautiful child grows up feeling detached from the nineteenth-century world around her and yet destined for a terrible vocation: to do the work of l'Ankou, death's henchman. Beginning with the demise of her very own maman...