Michele R. McPhee is the bestselling author of A Professor's Rage , A Mob Story , Heartless , and When Evil Rules -all available from St. Martin's Paperbacks. The former award-winning Police Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News , she was the courts and crime reporter for the Boston Herald where she is now a columnist. Currently she is a New England correspondent for ABC News and a Fox 25 TV contributor. A Date With Death was the basis for a Lifetime TV movie that aired in January 2011. She was also story consultant for the Lifetime movie "Who Is Clark Rockefeller?" that aired in 2010. 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. She was the host of two Court TV Mugshot specials and her reporting is also featured in the A&E TV special Crime Ink , and the Discovery series called Rats . Her journalism has taken her to crime scenes across the country and has made her a commentator on breaking news for CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Network. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.