" Oh no, dear, you’re far too lovely for that. You’ll be the kindly one. They’ll be terrified of you because I’ll spread rumours about you having once killed a man with a pen, but you’ll be winsome and agreeable.’ ‘It was a mechanical pencil and he was trying to shoot you.’ ‘Nevertheless, they’ll be adoring but wary. "

― T.E. Kinsey , Death Beside the Seaside (Lady Hardcastle Mystery #6)