Bestselling author Alexandra Fröhlich found dead in Hamburg

This was reported by Deutsche Welle.

Hamburg police confirmed that on the morning of April 22, the writer, Alexandra Fröhlich, was found dead by one of her sons in the floating house where she lived.

The cause of death for the 58-year-old woman was blunt force trauma, as reported on Monday, April 28, by German media Focus Online and Bild, citing police representatives.

The suspect has not been named. The potential murderer has not yet been identified, and the investigation is ongoing. According to the NDR channel, a close relative of Fröhlich has come under police scrutiny.

Alexandra Fröhlich is the author of bestsellers, including the novel My Russian Mother-in-Law and other Catastrophes and its sequel Travels with Russians. Focus Online describes Alexandra Fröhlich as one of the most successful German writers in recent years.

After the publication of My Russian Mother-in-Law and Other Catastrophes in 2012, which made it onto the Der Spiegel bestseller list, Fröhlich said it was based on her own experience of marriage. In 2016, her novel Death is Inevitable was published, followed by Skeletons in the Closet in 2019.

In addition to her writing career, Fröhlich worked as a freelance contributor to German media, including Der Stern, Petra, and Freundin. She began her journalism career in Kyiv, where she worked on women’s magazines.

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