Each story is illustrated with a full-color reproduction of the painting that inspired it.

Girlie show /Megan Abbott -- The story of Caroline / Jill D. Block -- Soir Bleu / Robert Olen Butler -- The truth about what happened / Lee Child -- Rooms by the sea / Nicholas Christopher -- Nighthawks / Michael Connelly -- The incident of 10 November / Jeffery Deaver -- Taking care of business / Craig Ferguson -- The music room / Stephen King -- The projectionist / Joe R. Lansdale -- The preacher collects / Gail Levin -- Office at night / Warren Moore -- The woman in the window / Joyce Carol Oates -- Still life 1931 / Kris Nelscott -- Night windows / Jonathan Santlofer -- A woman in the sun / Justin Scott -- Autumn at the automat / Lawrence Block.

"A newly commissioned anthology of seventeen superbly crafted stories inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper"--Dust jacket.