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, an upcoming issue of American Mensa's Calliope, and Wolfmont Press's The Gift of Murder Christmas anthology in the Winter of 2009.

The various characters who inhabit the Fifth Precinct's station house on Elizabeth Street and the surrounding neighborhoods of Chinatown and Little Italy range from detectives, beat cops and lab technicians to private eyes, bounty hunters and repossession agents, but they all have one thing in common: they work day in and day out with the seamier side of life in the streets of the naked city.


    The Police:
Captain Jim Crivelli Inspector Harold Behr Sergeant Lazear Koch Detective Karen Marx
Detective Tom Mackenzie Detective Lakisha White Detective Nick Serrano Detective Joseph Anmoore
Specialist Gregory Baines Officer Walt Reed Officer Brandon Grant Quentin Speedwell, ballistics
Aux. Officer Raphael Hajos Aux. Officer Fiorindo Gonella Jr.
 
    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 Linda Harris, LGBT bookseller
Peter Ho, attorney Zhu Li, Jade Dragon Triad Madame Liu-Tsong