It’s a few days before Christmas, and Meg’s grandfather is hosting a scientific conference on owls on the Caerphilly Inn. Most of the family are there, assisting out in a single capability or another, including Meg’s grandmother, Cordelia-invited by Grandfather in a uncommon gesture of peace-making, to talk about her expertise on rehabilitating huge wild birds, including owls. An unexpectedly severe snow surprise traps the conference-goers in the resort, and among the going to ornithologists is usually murdered. Even if Caerphilly is able to clear the roads in time, Key Burke doesn’t need the many suspects to scatter to six continents before he identifies the killer, therefore there’s an extremely real probability that none of these can make it home for Xmas…at least not really unless Meg involves the rescue.