Nighthawks: A Short Story

A cop and a femme fatale walk into a diner...(Note: "Nighthawks" is a short story. It is also available in the author's 10-story collection, Daggyland #1.)* * *This short story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Two men, a woman, and young soda jerk find themselves alone in a New York City diner in the wee hours of the night.Why are they there? What are they saying? What are they doing?The artist Edward Hopper first painted this scene in 1941.Now comes a story that imagines what really happened on that fateful night.* * *"D'Agnese writes the most unusual and interesting books."-Bookviews Joseph D'Agnese has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, This Old House, and many other publications. His science writing has been published extensively in Discover, Seed and Wired, and was twice named to the annual anthology, Best American Science Writing. His crime fiction has appeared in Shotgun Honey, Beat to a Pulp, Plots With Guns, and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. One of his short stories won the 2015 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction, another was shortlisted for the 2014 Derringer Award, and a third was chosen by bestselling author James Patterson for the prestigious anthology, Best American Mystery Stories 2015.