If you’re looking for a crime series that interweaves grisly crimes with an unlikely but dynamic duo of crime solvers, introduce yourself to Faye Kellerman’s Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. This hard nose cop and religious Jewish woman meet for the first time in The Ritual Bath, when a woman is brutally raped in Rina’s tight knit Jewish community. After Peter and Rina fall in love and marry, they work together to solve crime mysteries in a series of novels that can be read in order or as stand alone reads. Faye’s repertoire doesn’t end there, she has also written a YA novel with her daughter and co-authored books with her husband, John Kellerman, including Double Homicide which was a NYT bestseller.