The Women Are Not Fine

The Women Are Not Fine

by Hope Reese
Publication Date: 10/04/2025

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The women in Nagyrev are desperate. They are suffering.


When midwife Zsuzsanna Fazekas arrived at the village of Nagyrév in Hungary in 1911, she began listening to the problems women were having at home. Then, she offered a solution - arsenic - and a group of women, who became known as the 'Angelmakers' began poisoning their husbands.


Nearly 20 years later, it had turned into an epidemic, spiralling into the greatest poisoning case of the 20th century. In 1929, after an anonymous letter was sent to a newspaper in a nearby town, Szolnok, a police investigation unearthed 50 graves; 40 showed signs of arsenic poisoning. But estimates say that up to 300 people in Tiszazug -- a rural region south of Budapest, along the Tisza River -- may have been killed. Nagyrév was dubbed "the murder district" of Hungary. More than 100 women were held in Szolnok prison, charged with murder.


The Women Are Not Fine brings together newspapers, court documents and police records to explore one of the biggest mass poisoning events in modern history. Tapping into the revisionist history market but offering a radically different account of what women were capable of, the story of these women is ready to be told for the very first time.

ISBN:
9781840918434
9781840918434
Category:
True crime
Publication Date:
10-04-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Octopus
Available for download after 10/04/2025

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