Whittier Avenue, on the tranquil South Side of Minneapolis, seems to be a happy place in the spring of 1948. Below its sunny surface, however, the neighborhood seethes with dark secrets. Young family man Buddy Bailey is tormented by forbidden visions of a teenaged neighbor even as he plunges into a perilous affair with needy newcomer Cora Delafield. Meanwhile, Cora's husband, Henry, a frustrated shoe salesman with a sketchy past, schemes to seduce Buddy's unhappy wife, Evelyn. When Evelyn's brother, a shameless voyeur who has seen too much for his own good, is brutally murdered, both Buddy and Henry fall under suspicion, revealing new secrets and dangerous behavior that lurch inexorably toward disaster.

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.