Ditto for the Detective, Calvin Clemmons. Heather has apparently been holding a grudge against Lucy since high school, and decides to 'get even' by giving her parents a bad health inspection - which, I would think, they could challenge and have her fired for after all, if they've passed every single other inspection in thirty years it would be pretty obvious to everyone who knows Heather and Lucy that it was out of spite and nothing else. Then, this is not a town I'd want to visit. Just a stray cat that they've decided to name. He isn't allowed in the home, and it doesn't appear that they care for him in any other way - no vaccinations, no place to sleep, etc. Basically, her mother is feeding a stray cat. The cat lives outside and her mother feeds it. First off, calling Gadoo the cat her mother's pet is a little off the mark.

However, there's things I couldn't get past and others I just didn't like. I wanted to read this because it sounded from the blurb that it might be a great series to begin reading. She enlists the help of her best friend Katie to help her find out who killed Heather before she's sent away for the crime. Now Lucy is on the hot seat, suspected of killing her. But then Heather is found dead outside the restaurant, and she's been poisoned. Lucy knows it's only out of vindictiveness.

To make matters worse, Heather finds all sorts of violations at the restaurant, when her father, the previous inspector, never found a single one in thirty years.

The minute she returns her mother expects her to help out at the restaurant - a place she hates and couldn't wait to leave but when she comes across her old enemy Heather Banks - who made her miserable in high school - she realizes that it's not over when she finds out Heather is the new health inspector. Lucy Berberian leaves her job as a patent attorney in Philadelphia to return home, but hasn't told her parents the entire story.

Hummus and Homicide by Tina Kashian