Lone Women by Victor Lavalle

 aired the week of July 15, 2024

Lone Women by Victor Lavalle is a genre bending novel that is part historical fiction, part western and part horror.  The year is 1915 and 31-year-old Adelaide Henry has just left her home in the Lucerne Valley of California to homestead on the Montana prairie.  She leaves behind her parents corpses in their burning farmhouse but takes with her a heavy padlocked steamer trunk that has her secrets and past.  Adelaide may be making a new start but when someone opens that steamer trunk her whole world is turned upside down.  Recommended for fans of Stephen King and Joe Hill.