The premise is that Mallory Viridian solves murders, but mostly because wherever she goes people keep getting murdered. The receptionist while she's at her therapist. A parishioner while she's giving confession. etc.

This makes me think immediately of how cozy mysteries have outsized numbers of murders for small towns. or how major crime figures always seem to conduct major murderous operations that just happen around Jack Reacher.

is Lafferty satirizing those stories? imma bout to find out.