picturesque, picaresque

Picturesque or picturesque describes something romantic or charming, like a scene in an old painting--
They are staying in a picturesque fishing village; they sent some postcards.
The old mansion makes a picturesque setting for a wedding.

Picaresque or picaresque means like a vagabond or rogue, most commonly used to describe a novel or tale of a rogue's adventures--
His stories of his youth are often picaresque; he went around the country in an old van.
His scrapes with the law seemed picaresque to his friends, but his father was angry.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"She wrote a picaresque tale, in which the adeventures only occurred in the most picturesque of places."