Tuesday, April 29, 2025 - A bestselling German novelist was shot de@d in a violent attack on the houseboat where she lived.
“Skeletons in the Closet” author Alexandra Fröhlich, 58, was
found early last Tuesday, April 22, on her long, cerise houseboat on the
Holshafen bank of the Elbe River in Hamburg, the Guardian reported.
The mom of three was found by her son, officials said.
“After evaluating traces and evidence, the investigating
authorities now believe that the woman died as a result of violence,” a police
spokesperson told local media of the case being handled by the local murder
squad.
Fröhlich is believed to have d!ed sometime between midnight
and 5:30 a.m., police told the outlet.
Investigators have appealed to witnesses who may have seen
suspicious activity around the houseboat, but have not said if a suspect has
been identified, the outlet reported.
Fröhlich began her career as a journalist in Ukraine, where
she founded a women’s magazine and later became a freelance journalist.
In 2012, she began her career as a novelist with her
bestselling debut novel, “My Russian Mother-in-Law and Other Catastrophes,”
described by critics as “a hilarious west-east satire.”
She published additional successful novels, “Death Is a
Certainty” in 2016 and “Skeletons in the Closet” in 2019.
Both were published by Penguin and appeared on the Spiegel
Bestseller List.
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