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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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Homemade Explosives
I’m drawn to crimes involving school employees or students. This true crime involved both.

Robin Lyons
Nov 9, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Nov 2, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Oct 26, 2024
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A Violent Confrontation
The national shutdown during the early days of the Coronavirus Pandemic put many people out of work and families struggling ...

Robin Lyons
Oct 19, 2024
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First Date
Ten years of marriage, shared visitation with one stepchild and two children after a divorce can leave a man lonely.

Robin Lyons
Oct 12, 2024
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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....

Robin Lyons
Oct 5, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Sep 28, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Sep 21, 2024
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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.

Robin Lyons
Sep 14, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Sep 7, 2024
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Operation We Will Find You
The following words were on a sign I saw on the inside of a restroom stall at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport…. If you are a...

Robin Lyons
Aug 31, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Aug 24, 2024
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The Real Killer
As a woman who has been married twice, I never considered murdering my first husband—who does that?!

Robin Lyons
Aug 17, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Aug 10, 2024
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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,...

Robin Lyons
Aug 3, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Jul 27, 2024
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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...

Robin Lyons
Jul 20, 2024
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He Was a Child
Perhaps the 24-year-old woman in this true crime was too young to be a mental health counselor for young boys. She was a licensed...

Robin Lyons
Jul 6, 2024
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Pay Me, or Else
Most people have heard about the scam when someone calls and pretends to be a relative in jail needing money. The three-man crew in this...

Robin Lyons
Jun 29, 2024
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Fearful, yet Courageous
You wouldn’t think to call a woman on parole and attending drug and alcohol rehab courageous, but in this true crime, she was exactly that.

Robin Lyons
Jun 15, 2024
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