Legal thriller Mission Hill full of twists

Screenwriter, TV consultant and former prosecutor Pamela Wechsler skillfully eases into Mission Hill, her debut legal thriller featuring the intriguing Abby Endicott, chief of the Boston district attorney's homicide unit.

Wechsler's multilayered plot realistically touches on legal ethics, political intrigue and construction double-dealings with aplomb and plenty of twists.

Abby says she wants to handle gangbanger Orlando Jones' trial when fellow prosecutor Tim Mooney is murdered the night before he is to deliver his opening statement. This case is fraught with personal entanglements for Abby.