Robins Island –A Key Location in my Thriller– Becomes a Real-Life Crime Scene

In my new thriller, Fool Her Once, Robins Island is a key location. The tear-shaped blob in the middle of Peconic Bay between the North and South Forks of Long Island becomes a crime scene about half-way through my novel. It’s where a body washes up on the rocks on the west side of the island.

It is also the location for the climax of my thriller in which my female protagonist, Jenna Sinclair, an investigative reporter, confronts the real antagonist of the story.

Robins Island with sand spit separating it from North Fork. Photo Credit Peter Boody

Imagine my surprise, then, when just this week Robins Island became a real-life crime scene with police descending on it in full force. Only a handful of local newspapers covered the story about poachers with  allegedly criminal intentions sneaking onto the private island . Continue reading “Robins Island –A Key Location in my Thriller– Becomes a Real-Life Crime Scene”