German police are treating the death of novelist Alexandra Fröhlich as a murder after she was found dead with a gunshot wound in her houseboat in Hamburg.
The Guardian quotes a spokesperson for the German Police stating that it was relatives who found the woman "lifeless in her houseboat and alerted the firefighters, who could only confirm her death."
Fröhlich, 58, began her writing career in Journalism in Ukraine, where she founded a magazine. Her first novel was released in 2012: My Russian Mother-in-Law and Other Disasters, based on her personal experience as a Russian man's wife. It sold 50,000 copies, becoming a major success that landed her on Spiegel's bestseller list.
This debut was followed by a sequel, Traveling with Russians (2014), and she later wrote a crime novel, Death is a Certainty (2016), and Skeletons in the Closet (2019).