Joel Fox

Joel Fox's modern day mystery series featuring Senior FBI Special Agent Zane Rigby springs from strange historical events. The first book in the series, LINCOLN'S HAND, is connected to the actual attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. In FDR'S TREASURE, Franklin Roosevelt's numerous fishing trips to the reported treasure laden Cocos Island off Costa Rica serve as the catalyst for the second book in the series.

His newest stand alone book, THE MARK ON EVE, is a supernatural suspense. Eve, bewitched in colonial New England, never aging, keeping her secret, is alive today helping the female governor of California run for president of the United States. Her secret could unravel and doom the presidential campaign when she steps in front of an assassin's bullet.

From Kirkus Reviews on THE MARK ON EVE: "...wholly satisfying ending. An intriguing novel..."

Fox likes to say he has a long rap sheet in California politics. For three decades he has been a taxpayer and small business advocate, served on numerous state commissions appointed by governors and assembly speakers from both major political parties, worked on many ballot issue campaigns, and advised a number of candidates. He is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.

Authoring hundreds of opinion pieces, Fox has been published in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as other newspapers and websites.

His non-fiction works include a book, THE LEGEND OF PROPOSITION 13, about California's most famous ballot measure, and a chapter in the book, WHAT BASEBALL MEANS TO ME, sanctioned by the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 2008, Fox completed the Los Angeles FBI Citizens Academy program gaining a deeper understanding of the FBI and its mission.

Growing up in Massachusetts, Fox says he got his love of history breathing the air in the Boston area, often driving past the homes of the presidents Adams and visiting many historical sites.

See an interview with Joel Fox on CSPAN2 Book TV at the following link. A short clip appears on this page. http://www.c-span.org/video/?318931-8/book-discussion-fdrs-treasure-lincolns-hand