About Jane Healey

Jane Healey is the bestselling author of several historical fiction books including The Beantown Girls, a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller. The Secret Stealers, a WWII spy thriller, was an Amazon First Reads Editor’s Pick, one of the New York Post’s Best New Books, a Historical Novel Society’s Editors’ Choice pick and was also on Frolic’s 25 Best Books of Spring 2021. Jane is also the host of Historical Happy Hour, a monthly webinar and podcast featuring premiere historical fiction books, authors and their latest novels. Her latest novel, Goodnight from Paris, will be published in March 2023.

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Goodnight from Paris

In Nazi-occupied France, an American film star takes on the most dangerous role of her life in a gripping historical fiction novel about loyalty and resistance, inspired by a true story.

Goodnight from Paris is a portrait in courage, not of the men who lifted guns to rid their nations of tyranny, but of the women who fought to get the support of the United States for the cause via the airwaves. This deft rendering of Drue Leyton’s valiant efforts to report the atrocities of war to the American public deserves a place on the shelf of any lover of World War II fiction. Not to be missed.”
— Aimie K. Runyan, author of The School for German Brides

Jane Healey excels at showing ordinary women rising to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances. You'll be cheering for real-life forgotten heroine, American movie star Drue Leyton-Tartiere, as she turns down the chance to leave embattled France for Hollywood, and, instead, defies the Nazi occupiers, risking her life again and again in the cause of freedom. A riveting story of true heroism.”
— Lauren Willig, NYT Bestselling Author of Band of Sisters

The Secret Stealers

Bestselling historical fiction featuring a female American spy in Nazi-occupied France who finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring.

The Secret Stealers is a flawlessly crafted and engrossing story of the unexpected ways in which war changes who we are. Once again, Healey gifts readers with her trademark characters: everyday women who prove themselves to be extraordinary—women so relatable, so endearing, and so brave that they jump off the page and into our hearts.
—Lynda Cohen Loigman, USA Today bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters

The Secret Stealers was an Amazon Editor’s First Reads Pick, one of the New York Post’s Best New Books April 2021, a Historical Novel Society’s Editor’s Choice and one of Cosmopolitan’s Best Historical Novels of 2021.

The Beantown Girls

A WWII historical fiction novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as the war’s brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines.

A fascinating novel about a little-known wartime sacrifice, The Beantown Girls is lovingly crafted, heartbreaking, and illuminated with hope. I couldn’t put it down!
—Ellen Marie Wiseman, author of The Life She Was Given

The Beantown Girls is a Washington Post and Amazon Charts Bestseller!

One of BookBub’s Biggest World War II Novels Hitting Shelves This Year!

One of PopSugar’s Best New Books of Winter.

Listen to Songs from The Beantown Girls on Spotify!

Read my interview with literary agent Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media. We discuss The Beantown Girls and all things publishing.

The Saturday Evening Girls Club

Historical fiction novel featuring four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, who bond together for a better future.

The writing is so smooth that readers may not consciously notice all the cultural details tucked in.…Fans of warmhearted sagas should enjoy this.
—Historical Novel Society

Watch my webinar about the story behind The Saturday Evening Girls Club