The History Teacher

How do you know what you know is true?

During the blizzard of 1978, a woman is discovered face down at the edge of her Delaware estate, a boxer, half-dead, by her side. Nearby, in a deep ravine, a CIA officer lies buried under two feet of snow. Their secret meeting-sabotaged.

When Emma Quinn gets a call in her Manhattan apartment-your grandmother, out walking her dog, found dead in the snow-she has no reason to suspect foul play. A history professor at Columbia and the sole heir to the Quinn ...