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.