Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the steamy summer of 1953. When publishing-company heir Bower Stockman hires Frank Gates, a middle-aged, down-on-his-luck private investigator, to arrange a murder, Gates reluctantly contacts "handyman" Harry Fairchild. As Frank knows only too well, Harry, a childhood pal, has done that kind of "odd job" before, and is currently as desperate for cash as Frank is. But the situation is complicated. Detective Sergeant Pinky Moberg is determined to cap his long police career by solving the infamous Zola Shea homicide that has bedeviled him for 15 years. His prime suspect: Harry Fairchild, aided and abetted by Frank Gates. Further roiling these choppy waters, Raymond Gates, Frank's troubled stepson who has recently returned from military service in Europe, has seduced Stockman's alluring wife and will stop at nothing to steal her from her husband's bed. The overlapping relationships and tangled objectives lead to an unlikely yet inevitable conclusion in which a broken man betrays an old friend, star-crossed lovers face brutal retribution, and only a latter-day Javert may emerge triumphant.

W.A. Winter is the pen name of William Swanson, a Minneapolis-based journalist and author who has written extensively about crime, law enforcement, and the courts. See You/See Me, Handyman, and Wolfie's Game are his first ebook novels. As William Swanson, he is the author of three true-crime books: Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson, Black White Blue: The Assassination of Patrolman Sackett, and Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper. Dial M was the basis of an Investigation Discovery Network docudrama and has been optioned for a feature film.
In April 2021, Seventh Street Books published W.A. Winter's novel, The Secret Lives of Dentists, inspired by an infamous Minneapolis murder case in 1955. Seventh Street Books will publish another Midwestern noir novel, My Name Is Joe LaVoie, also inspired by actual events, in August of this year.