Michele McPhee is the best-selling true crime author of “Mob Over Miami;” “Heartless: the True Story of Neil Entwistle and the Brutal Murder of His Wife and Child;” “When Evil Rules;” and “A Date With Death: the Secret Life of the Craigslist Killer.” Her first book, “Mob Over Miami” is now available as “A Mob Story.”

She is the host of The Michele McPhee Show that airs weeknights from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday on 96.9 FM WTKK Boston Talks. She is also a new England correspondent for ABC News and a contributing reporter to the Boston Herald, where she held the title of Police Bureau Chief for three years.

McPhee is also a weekly commentator on Boston’s Fox 25. McPhee is currently a contracted story consultant to Sony Pictures on “Who is Clark Rockefeller,” a made for TV movie that aired on Lifetime in March of 2010 and her book “A Date With Death” in production for that network. “Mob Over Miami” is slated to begin production on a feature film in 2011.

Michele McPhee has co-produced and hosted two Tru-TV “Mugshot” specials – one chronicling Chris Paciello, the South Beach nightclub king turned mob rat.  The second Tru-TV documentary focused on the life of Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, the Gambino crime family turncoat whose testimony sent the late John Gotti to prison for life. McPhee is also a creator of the A&E TV special, “Crime Ink,” which featured her reporting alongside other crime scribes.

She has covered high-profile crime cases across the country and has been a commentator on breaking news for national programs on CNN; MSNBC; and the Fox News Network. McPhee’s true crime stories have appeared in more than a dozen national magazines including Maxim; Stuff; Cosmopolitan; New York; ESPN the Magazine; Gotham; Manhattan File; and other international publications.

McPhee was the first female Police Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News, the paper where she covered murder, mayhem and the Mafia for nearly ten years. She was at Ground Zero on September 11, 2001. McPhee was awarded the 2002 New York Society of the Silurian’s Feature News Award for a body of work entitled: “The Days After.”She returned to her native Boston in 2004, where McPhee was a weekly columnist and the Police Bureau Chief for the Boston Herald. She was awarded first place for Serious Column by the New England Press Association in 2007.

The Harley-riding McPhee lives in East Boston, Massachusetts with her dog Wilbur.