Jeff Maysh is a British-American writer based in Los Angeles, California. He investigates unusual cases of crime, robbery, and fraud. His non-fiction writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the BBC, Cosmopolitan, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Playboy, the Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and many other titles. He has profiled bank robbers, spies, smugglers, con artists, and gangsters. He is 34.
His article ‘the Wedding Sting’, about a fake wedding thrown by undercover Michigan cops, is currently in development with Paramount Pictures. Six of his articles have been ‘optioned’ by Hollywood studios including Warner Brothers and Fox. In 2016, he won three awards at the 58th Annual Southern California Press Awards. They were: Best Crime Reporting, Best Feature, and Best Feature by a Foreign Correspondent.
Jeff's first Kindle Single, 'Handsome Devil', was one of Amazon’s ‘Best Books of 2016’.