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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 Gun Under His Bed
He was five years older than his girlfriend. If they’d both been adults, that would’ve been fine. But she was 15 when they began dating. She kept his age secret from her mother and stepfather.

Robin Lyons
Sep 26


He Chose Violence
Sadly, too many children witness their parents arguing and worse. Sometimes those arguments lead to violence. Here, the parents were still living together but no longer married. Divorced five years prior. They had three children living at home—two juveniles and the mother’s young adult son from a previous relationship.

Robin Lyons
Sep 19


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


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


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


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


Just Enough Time to Duck
A young couple—the father was 41 years old and the mother, 37 years old. In the backseat of their car as they parked near a pizza place were two of their three children—a son, age eleven, and a daughter, age seven.

Robin Lyons
Feb 14


No Matter What - We Are Losing
Parenting is hard. When parents have a child with any type of disability, it compounds the challenge, tests the character of a parent, and their ability to keep the needs of their child in the forefront of their decision. Parenting adult children with disabilities is also challenging.

Robin Lyons
Jan 31


Brave Testimony
Less than two years after they married, the marriage ended when the husband died.

Robin Lyons
Dec 13, 2025


They Seemed Like the Perfect Couple
I’m sure that, like me, you know someone who becomes an angry drunk when they’ve consumed too much alcohol. It may be a factor in this true crime.

Robin Lyons
Dec 6, 2025


You Will Be Held Accountable
Would you kill someone who wronged a person you cared about simply based on what they told you—no evidence provided?

Robin Lyons
Nov 1, 2025


I’m Afraid for My Life
He had been a firefighter for 19 years, working his way to captain before he retired. It’s unknown what sent him on the path that led to prison.

Robin Lyons
Oct 18, 2025


Always Looking Over Their Shoulders
The day the multi-millionaire property developer met her, he was 14 years older; she was at work in a shop. He invited her to dinner in another country—asking her to accompany him. She accepted. Within one month of dating, she moved into his home.

Robin Lyons
Sep 27, 2025


She Wanted Someone Dead
a jealous ex-girlfriend who wanted her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend killed.

Robin Lyons
Sep 20, 2025


She Went Too Far
The man and woman in this true crime met on a dating app then became hiking buddies. She wanted more—he didn’t.

Robin Lyons
Sep 6, 2025


When Love Turns Lethal
They were in a relationship, living together. She thought the relationship was monogamous until she learned he had a lover on the side.

Robin Lyons
Aug 30, 2025


Breaking Up Is Hard: A Tragic Tale of Betrayal and Justice
Breaking up is hard. Whether it be a marriage or a relationship—ending it isn’t easy.

Robin Lyons
Aug 23, 2025


Online Feuds and Senseless Rivalries
Most people know what a social media entrepreneur is, right? Anyone can gain fame and financial success if they market the right thing, at the right time, in the right way that gets shared a zillion times by a zillion people.

Robin Lyons
Aug 9, 2025
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