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Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries Kindle Edition

by Joylene Nowell Butler (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
The follow-up to Broken But Not Dead, an IPPY Award Silver Medalist A murder enveloped in pain and mystery... When Canada's retired Minister of National Defense, Leland Warner, is murdered in his home, the case is handed to Corporal Danny Killian, an aboriginal man tortured by his wife's unsolved murder. The suspect, 60-year-old Sally Warner, still grieves for the loss of her two sons, dead in a suicide/murder eighteen months earlier. Confused and damaged, she sees in Corporal Killian a friend sympathetic to her grief and suffering and wants more than anything to trust him. Danny finds himself with a difficult choice—indict his prime suspect, the dead minister's horribly abused wife or find a way to protect her and risk demotion. Or worse, transfer away from the scene of his wife’s murder and the guilt that haunts him...
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01K017650
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dancing Lemur Press, L.L.C.
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.8 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781939844248
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939844248
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Joylene Nowell Butler

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Joylene Nowell Butler is the award-winning author of the political thriller Kiss of the Assassin, the suspense novels Dead Witness, Maski: Broken But Not Dead, Break Time, and Matowak: Woman Who Cries. She won the IPPY Silver Medal for Broken But Not Dead in 2012. Born in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, she is the youngest of three children of Charles (Charlie) Murray Nowell, veteran, farmer and truck driver, and Gabrielle Frances, (nee Desjardins), a member of the wartime singing trio The Desjardins Sisters. When her father was discharged from the Navy, he moved his family from Victoria to Haney, (Maple Ridge) BC. Joylene grew up with horses, cows, pigs and chickens. A regular tomboy.

Joylene, Metis/Canadian, is a graduate of Simon Fraser University where she majored in English and Philosophy. In 1979, she and her husband Ralph Butler moved their five sons to Prince George, BC. Thirteen years later, they moved an hour west of the city and built a log/stick house on quiet Cluculz Lake, 36 kms east of Vanderhoof. Twenty-five years later, they sold their home and today spend their time between Bucerias, Nayarat and Cluculz Lake.

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  • Christine Thomson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent novel from Joylene Nowell Butler!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2017
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    Matowak: Woman Who Cries is a powerful story, vividly portraying northern British Columbia and delving into grief and healing for two very different characters.

    Having read the related Broken But Not Dead, I found it fascinating to pick up the story in the same world with two new protagonists, one of which was someone I'd had little regard for in the previous story. I enjoy having my world view challenged by though-provoking stories. I think it's important and necessary.

    I won't risk a spoiler, but I will say that the author does a skillful job of creating a dark maze through which the reader questions all possible outcomes. The narrative expertly drew me in until I was right alongside both the police officer's and suspect's points of view, straining to decipher where the real world ended and trauma-induced illusions took over.

    I do recommend reading the related earlier novel, but it's not necessary for enjoyment of this well-developed story.

    Bravo Mrs. Nowell Butler on a job well done!
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  • Stephanie Faris
    5.0 out of 5 stars A police procedural that will keep you guessing!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2016
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    In Matowak: Woman Who Cries, a woman suddenly finds her husband dead of a gunshot wound in their kitchen. Because he's the retired Minister of National Defense, the list of suspects is long...and it includes his grieving widow, Sally. She has lost so much, you can't help but feel for her while at the same time wondering if she really did have something to do with it. If you are one of the many people (like me!) who like police procedurals, this is a book you'll LOVE.
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  • Hank Quense
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping Police Procedural
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2021
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    I just read Joylene Butler’s Matowak, the woman who cries. If you like police procedurals and murder mysteries, this is the book you have to read.
    The story starts off with the murder of a retire national politician in his kitchen. Unlike most crime scenes, the murderer left no clues, none. The chief investigator is stymied and frustrated until the investigator realizes the victim’s house is missing an electronic device. A house search doesn’t disclose the missing device. Eventually, it is found and the story takes a bizarre (and unexpected turn) as the murderer is disclosed.

    Don’t miss out on this gripping tale of murder and revenge. Get a copy!
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  • Kathleen Kelly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Woman who Cries
    Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2016
    The story starts out with the murder of Minister of National Defense, Leland Warner. His wife become a suspect but the Corporal Danny Killian, an aboriginal police officer, is tasked with figuring out how she was able to not leave any clues. All fingers point to her, especially as the reader learns about her marriage and life as a mother of two son's. These son's were involved in a murder, suicide prior to the start of this story.

    What kind of a family were the Warner's, what kind of secrets were there to this obviously dysfunctional family? The reader slowly makes the way through the quagmire that this murder has left behind. I really did not care for Sally Warner at the beginning of the book, I felt that she was definitely a weak woman, but as the story went on, I changed my mind about her because she actually surprised me. Not that she was a suspect in her husbands murder but that her character seemed to get stronger as the story moved along. Even though this is the sequel to Broken but not Dead, which tells the story of the murder, suicide of the Warner son's, this book was very readable.

    The reader also learns about Corporal Killian's past, which includes the murder of his wife. So the two storylines are intertwined to tell a very interesting cultural tale of suspense. A definite pageturner. I really enjoyed it.

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  • Roses are Amber
    3.0 out of 5 stars Murder Mystery set in Canada
    Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2016
    Three Point Five Stars.

    Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries is a murder mystery set in Canada, and is a sequel to "Broken But Not Dead". The book opens with a murder scene of Leland Warner a former Minister of National Defense. During Leland's life and political career he built a long list of enemies and it quickly becomes a high profile case.

    Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Danny Killian is given the case, he's a native Haida aboriginal, whose wife was recently murdered, which gives him an emotional tie to Leland's wife Sally.

    Sally Warner has suffered enough; miscarriages, a still birth of a daughter and the death of two sons eighteen months ago, and now she faces life without her husband too. However she cannot be dismissed as a possible suspect.

    The book is written from alternating points of view of both Sally and Killian with added character's own thoughts in an aside to the reader. The plot builds the suspense with suitable twists. Throughout we see a side of Canada described by culture and racism which adds to the atmosphere of the story-line.

    There was room to shorten some of the dialogue into more natural everyday conversations, especially where the police procedures were being described, I expect most crime readers or TV viewers of crime have a good notion of what goes on and some of the details felt a little unnecessary, or repetitive.
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  • TFBrown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Far Beyond My Expectations!!
    Reviewed in Canada on December 6, 2016
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    Joylene Nowell Butler’s newest novel will be sure to please all mystery readers. Written from a Canadian perspective, with Canadian narrative, Matowak: Woman Who Cries deserves to be compared with novels written by Linwood Barclay, Sandra Brown and Tami Hoag. With a twisted plot written to keep the reader from closing the book and yearning to find out what happens next, Nowell Butler, has developed her craft to a point where her name should be spoken with all great mystery crime writers. Her characterizations enable us to visualize with clarity each of the characters she writes about. After reading Matowak:Woman Who Cries I will be eagerly waiting for her to produce her next novel. This is by far her best novel to date.
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