Repeating themselves

have an idea for a crime series. Each of the books will be stand-alone but with the same female police officer investigating and with her personal story, and that of her male deputy, progressing in each. I have decided not to submit my work anywhere until I have written the first two, so that a potential agent or publisher can see that the series has legs, but I am not sure how much reiteration is required. Do I have to recap the main points about these two characters in each new novel – eg, she is widowed; his son once had