In the three years before Lucia worked on the ward in question, there were seven deaths. In the three years that she did work on the ward, there were six deaths. Here’s a thought: it seems odd that the death rate should go down on a ward at the precise moment that a serial killer—on a killing spree—arrives. If Lucia killed them all, then there must have been no natural deaths on that ward at all in the whole of the three years that she worked there. Ah,