W a WinterW. A. Winter is the pen name of William Swanson, a Minneapolis journalist. Swanson 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: Th Kidnapping of Virginia Piper. Writing as W. A. Winter, he has published, besides The Secret Lives of Dentists, three suspense novels: Handyman, See You / See Me, and Wolfie's Game. Read More Read Less