German authorities are investigating a possible murder after best-selling German novelist Alexandra Fröhlich was found dead on a houseboat with signs of a violent attack, according to reports. Fröhlich,

Alexandra Frölich, a bestselling German novelist, was found dead on her houseboat in Moorfleet by a relative, Hamburg police—who are investigating the incident as a homicide—said in a press statement.

A bestselling German novelist was shot dead in a violent attack on the houseboat where she lived, according to officials treating it as murder. “Skeletons in the Closet” author Alexandra Fröhlich, 58,