When Liss and the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society get snowed in during a gathering for the Robert Burns Night Supper, old grudges and whiskey heat up the atmosphere. Then a tartan-covered body is discovered in a storage room, and Liss helps her friends sort out the facts before more tempers--and lives--are lost.

When the Scottish dance troupe she once had belonged to arrives in Moosetookalook, Maine, Liss MacCrimmon, throwing a reception in their honor, finds herself among the suspects in the sudden death of the despised company manager, Victor Owens.