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Robin Lyons
Internationally Selling Mystery Author
My hard-hitting, true crime posts aim to inform you and provide me with story inspiration. Have a look and see what you think.
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Robin Lyons
Nov 23
The Eyewitness
What would you do if your young adult daughter had sent her boyfriend nude photos of herself and since they’d broken up, you believe he’s...
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Robin Lyons
Nov 16
High School Sweethearts
They were high school sweethearts who went in different directions after high school.
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Robin Lyons
Nov 9
Homemade Explosives
I’m drawn to crimes involving school employees or students. This true crime involved both.
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Robin Lyons
Nov 1
Tough-on-Crime
We’ve all seen accidents on the freeway. When they happen on your side, traffic comes to a complete stop. When they happen on the side...
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Robin Lyons
Oct 25
What You Did Was Frightening
The love triangle is as old as the hills. Most of the time, it doesn’t fare well. One person is always unhappy. In this crime, it was the...
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Robin Lyons
Oct 18
A Violent Confrontation
The national shutdown during the early days of the Coronavirus Pandemic put many people out of work and families struggling ...
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Robin Lyons
Oct 11
First Date
Ten years of marriage, shared visitation with one stepchild and two children after a divorce can leave a man lonely.
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Robin Lyons
Oct 4
Stealing from the Army
It appears no line of employment is without workers who steal from their employer. In this case, the employer was the United States Army....
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Robin Lyons
Sep 27
A Dangerous Woman
When you are a law-abiding, kind, person it’s hard to understand someone who seems to have been born evil, heartless, selfish, and...
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Robin Lyons
Sep 20
Obligations
Divorce can be an ugly, destructive life event for many estranged couples. When you see no other options but to divorce and you have...
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Robin Lyons
Sep 13
No Justice
The 59-year-old man in this true crime lived with his 95-year-old mother until her death—never living on his own.
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Robin Lyons
Sep 6
Dark History
In 2005, a 36-year-old man worked at his family’s restaurant. In 2007, he was on trial for breaking into a young woman’s home. The...
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Robin Lyons
Aug 30
Operation We Will Find You
If you are a victim of human trafficking or sexual assault, use the emergency phone in the restroom for assistance—this was the sign I...
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Robin Lyons
Aug 23
Senseless Act
It wasn’t his first stint in prison. He’d had an explosive personality since he was a child. As the 34-year-old man left the prison after...
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Robin Lyons
Aug 16
The Real Killer
As a woman who has been married twice, I never considered murdering my first husband—who does that?!
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Robin Lyons
Aug 9
My Bad
The 66-year-old businessman who’d once been a local city council member became a person of interest in the disappearance of his...
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Robin Lyons
Aug 2
Split the Assets
After 32-years of marriage, a couple called it quits. Couples accumulate a lot of stuff in 32 years—making a clean split challenging,...
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Robin Lyons
Jul 26
Deadly Love-Triangle
Over thirty years ago, two women shared the affection of one man. Neither woman liked the scenario. In fact, one woman gave her lover an...
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Robin Lyons
Jul 19
True Grit
The 24-year-old athletic woman had broken up with her 30-year-old boyfriend and moved on to dating someone else. Two weeks after the...
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