{"id":5435,"date":"2026-03-11T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:59:09","slug":"book-talk-j-a-jance-long-time-gone-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-j-a-jance-long-time-gone-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: J.A. Jance, \u2018Long Time Gone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5435\" class=\"elementor elementor-5435\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42d779e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"42d779e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e165f51 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3e165f51\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Judith Ann Jance uses her initials for her pseudonym because a publisher told her that readers might not accept a female author, writing about a male detective.That was about 50 years ago.Since then, she has published 29 best sellers about male cop, J.P. Beaumont, 20 about Ali Reynolds, 22 about Joanna Brady, and 5 in her Walker Family Mysteries series.That\u2019s one heck of a record for an author of any gender, and I\u2019m surprised that I hadn\u2019t discovered her work earlier.<\/p><p>I read her \u201cLong Time Gone,\u201d a cop mystery that\u2019s partially a police procedural, borrowed from my friend Rochelle Noblett.Honestly, I had no idea that the novel had been written by a woman until I finished it and saw her photograph on the inside of the back cover.She\u2019s that good at creating male dialogue.<\/p><p>\u201cLong Time Gone\u201d (2005, 352 pages in hardback) opens with Sister Mary Katherine, Mother Superior at St. Benedict convent, who has been terrorized by unexplainable nightmares.Founder of the convent, she gets advice from a younger nun, a psych major when she was in college.Following the younger woman\u2019s counsel, Sister Mary Katherine arranges a series of appointments with a former classmate who is now a hypnotherapist.He records their sessions, and Sister Mary Katherine learns about her experience as a young child, an experience that must be reported to the police.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Ann Jance uses her initials for her pseudonym because a publisher told her that readers might not accept a female author, writing about a male detective.That was about 50 years ago.Since then, she has published 29 best sellers about male cop, J.P. Beaumont, 20 about Ali Reynolds, 22 about Joanna Brady, and 5 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44085,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions\/44085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}