The Fifth Precinct

The Fifth Precinct is J. F. Benedetto's ongoing series of short stories--mysteries, puzzlers and straight crime fiction--that have appeared in print in various magazines and anthologies, including Woman's World, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine and the Deadly Ink 2008 Short Story Collection.

The various characters who inhabit the Fifth Precinct's station house and the surrounding neighborhood range from detectives, beat cops and lab technicians to private eyes, bounty hunters and repo men, but they all have one thing in common: they work day in and day out with the seamier side of life in the streets.


    The Police:
Chief of Police Jim Crivelli Captain Harold Behr Lt. Karen Marx Lt. Lakisha White
Lt. Joseph Anmoore Sgt. Gregory Baines Sgt. Tom Mackenzie Sgt. Nick Serrano
Officer Walt Reed Officer Lazear Koch Officer Brandon Grant
Quentin Speedwell, ballistics Peter Ho, attorney
 
    Armed good guys:
Joi Li, Fugitive Recovery Agent Mark Sauer, private eye E.C. Diospyros, bail bondsman Betty Hamilton, repo ninja
"Big Tommy" Mullins, FRA Denny Brown, FRA "Kayak" Johnson, FRA Slade Peterson, repo pirate
 
    ..and others:
Michael Bendix, used bookseller Benjamin Edetto, chrislamist Collier Scott, reporter