(1)  Take this article from CNN’s travel section about a sleepy Maine town, which opens:

No one strays into Castine. It’s not on the way to anyplace, and it contains only a handful of shops. But in this almost-too-perfect New England town, you can stroll shaded sidewalks past classic Federal houses as a historic church bell tolls in the distance. On a fine fall day in Maine, everything here dazzles, from the white houses to the indigo bay sliced with white sails.

(2)  Take this news story, also from CNN, which begins:

Julie Bullard and her daughter tried to put tragedy behind them when they moved from California to Maine to run a bed and breakfast. It was to be a fresh start after her daughter’s husband died in a car accident.

Now, both are dead, and a guest in the inn was charged Tuesday with killing them and two others in Maine’s biggest homicide case in more than a decade.

(3)  Mash them together.