Dark Ugly Places

★★★★☆ Dark Ugly Places is an intricate thriller about women’s rage. A widowed mother seeks revenge against the man who killed her husband in Ashley Mansour’s suspenseful novel Dark Ugly Places . When Nicola’s daughter Emmy is a toddler, a hit-and-run accident kills her husband and leaves Nicola disabled. Later, when Emmy is fourteen, Nicola runs into the perpetrator at a fancy Los Angeles hotel,…