Robin Acton

Award winning journalist and author Robin Acton is known for her work in covering crime, courts and investigative projects for western Pennsylvania newspapers.

Acton interviewed everyone from presidential candidates to convicted murderers during a thirty-three year career that took her from crime scenes and courtrooms in western Pennsylvania to the mountains of Idaho, the Arizona desert, the streets of New York City, and the marbled halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. She has written extensively about crime, politics, government bureaucracy, terrorism, and both natural and man-made disasters, including the Sept. 11, 2001 crash of Flight 93.

Her 2021 debut novel, The Taker, was a Best Mystery finalist for the 2022 Silver Falchion Award given annually by the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference.

A wanderer at heart, Acton loves to travel and has thus far visited forty-two states and fifty countries, with the rest of the world on her bucket list. She does her best writing poolside at her favorite spot in Aruba.

She and her husband, a retired Marine combat veteran, share a blended family that includes a daughter, three sons, five grandchildren, and a very spoiled Bichon, Louie.