Jane Healey

Jane Healey is an American author of literary fiction. The Animals At Lockwood Manor is a gothic mystery set in a wartime English country house during the Second World War, where a young woman tasked with guarding a natural history museum's evacuated animal collection begins to suspect that something sinister lurks within the grand house and its troubled inhabitants. Healey's writing has been praised for its atmospheric evocation of wartime England, its gothic sensibility and its exploration of the fears, desires and secrets that emerge when people are confined together in extraordinary circumstances. The novel combines elements of historical fiction, gothic mystery and psychological suspense. Her audiobooks and books offer readers richly atmospheric fiction that blends historical detail with dark, compelling mystery.