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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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A Minor Inconvenience in His Life
It’s not unusual for a 23-year-old son attending college to live with his parents. What is unusual is the son lying about attending college when he’d flunked out. He also lied about being offered an amazing job.

Robin Lyons
4 days ago


He’s a Cold-Hearted Killer
When you’ve been a political consultant for many years who has used questionable tactics to help get people elected, you might look over your shoulder more than most people and perhaps begin to question friendships.

Robin Lyons
Aug 29


If You Damage Me
After over 15 years of marriage, a couple divorced. The divorce was contentious and the ex-husband bitter. He became even more bitter after his arrest for failing to pay court-ordered alimony and child support.

Robin Lyons
Aug 22


One Man’s Jealousy
Things you might think about when you move into a new home—hiring a locksmith to re-key the locks. Things you don’t think about when you move into a new home—who lived there before you and who wants them dead.

Robin Lyons
Aug 15


I Want Her Gone
Two women, both mentally impaired, in love, living apart, wanting to be together. What’s stopping them? One, living in a care facility—her caretakers. The other—her mother, her caretaker.

Robin Lyons
Aug 8


He’s Going to Kill Me
Divorce is ugly more often than it’s not. Custody battles. Financial settlements. Division of property. Oftentimes, when the wife is a stay-at-home mom who didn’t contribute financially to the family, the money settlement is especially aggravating for the working husband.

Robin Lyons
Aug 1


A Vicious and Intricate Plot
It started with a car fire investigation. The investigation discovered that the fire set to a woman's car whose son was in a complicated relationship was only the beginning.

Robin Lyons
Jul 25


He Tried to Hide His Role
He had an investor on the hook for his revolutionary cure for HIV, and he would let no one mess it up.

Robin Lyons
Jul 18


They Stole from the Whole City
Imagine you have plans to take the children and perhaps grandchildren to see the annual fireworks show the city puts on. Then you hear someone has stolen the fireworks.

Robin Lyons
Jul 4


The One Hiccup in The Plan
One evening in midsummer, a 35-year-old mother of five children vanished, and no one has seen her since.

Robin Lyons
Jun 27


Pets Can Never Be Replaced
The dangerous young man in this true crime dated a young woman in high school whom he still cared for. On her part, they were still friends.

Robin Lyons
May 30


Rival Business
One way to get rid of the competition is to hire some thugs to deal with him—in the most permanent way.

Robin Lyons
May 23


A Glimmer of Solace
A man with schizoaffective disorder who hears a repeated mantra that targets a specific ethnicity is capable of doing harm to himself and others.

Robin Lyons
May 16


The Death Penalty
Two months into their marriage, everything changed for the dancer when her abusive husband forced her to use credit cards he’d stolen.

Robin Lyons
May 9


Not the Father
One of the random killings the former realtor had claimed as his when he confessed to his crimes was four people murdered at a local store.

Robin Lyons
May 2


Troubled and Vicious
Have you ever met or known of a person—even a teenager—whom you thought would eventually do something bad, maybe terrible? That’s the key person in this true crime.

Robin Lyons
Apr 25


I Never Wanted to Hurt Anyone
It’s sad for everyone when a couple with a child divorces. When a divorce is contentious, it’s even worse. Then add to the drama the ex-wife’s new boyfriend, who is arrogant and full of himself—her friends had a bad feeling about him.
Robin
Apr 18


Finally Vindicated
If you’re like me and know little about how law enforcement actually functions, then I’m sure this true crime will blow your mind as much as it did mine.

Robin Lyons
Apr 11


A Small Measure of Justice
A 39-year-old married police officer, father of two young children, and field-training officer sat in his police vehicle in a residential neighborhood with a rookie in training.

Robin Lyons
Apr 3


Disbarment
It’s hard to believe that a highly educated man would think he could hire a contract-killing on his partner and get away with it nowadays. And he wasn’t just highly educated—he was a practicing attorney.

Robin Lyons
Mar 28
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