Dorothy BodoinDorothy Bodoin lives in Royal Oak, Michigan, with her blue merle collie, Layla. On graduating from high school, she obtained a stenographer's position at Chrysler Corporation where she worked for six years, two of which were spent in southern Italy. fter earning bachelor's and master's degrees in English literature at Oakland University, she began a second career as a high school English teacher. After retiring, she began a third career as a novelist, specializing in her favorite genre-mystery-and writing about her life-long love, collies. Read More Read Less