A bestselling German novelist was shot useless in a violent assault on the houseboat the place she lived, in line with officers treating it as homicide.
“Skeletons in the Closet” creator Alexandra Fröhlich, 58, was discovered early final Tuesday on her lengthy cerise-colored houseboat on the Holshafen financial institution of the Elbe River in Hamburg, The Guardian reported.
The mother of three was discovered by her son, officers stated.
“After evaluating traces and evidence, the investigating authorities now believe that the woman died as a result of violence,” a police spokesperson instructed native media of the case being dealt with by the native homicide squad.
Fröhlich is believed to have died a while between midnight and 5:30 a.m., police instructed the outlet.
Investigators have appealed to witnesses who could have seen suspicious exercise across the houseboat, however haven’t stated if a suspect has been recognized, the outlet reported.
Fröhlich started her profession as a journalist in Ukraine, the place she based a ladies’s journal and later grew to become a contract journalist.
In 2012, she started her profession as a novelist along with her bestselling debut novel, “My Russian Mother-in-Law and Other Catastrophes,” described by critics as “a hilarious west-east satire.”
She printed extra profitable novels, “Death is a Certainty” in 2016, and “Skeletons in the Closet” in 2019.
Each have been printed by Penguin and appeared on the Spiegel Bestseller Listing.
