Scott Eden is an investigative reporter whose work has focused on crime, corruption, injustice, business, science, technology, and the dark side of sports.

He’s the author of the critically acclaimed A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed (Spiegel & Grau, February 2026), hailed by the New York Times as “an exhilarating, deeply reported true-crime murder mystery and love story that moves like a Netflix thriller,” and by Publishers Weekly as “top-shelf suspense . . . True crime doesn’t come much better than this.”

Eden has written for ESPN The Magazine, GQ, Wired, Rolling Stone, The Atavist, The Believer and many other publications, and his stories have been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and in The Believer's best-of collection, Read Hard.