Alexandra Cordes

Alexandra Cordes (real name Ursula Horbach, née Schaake, 16 November 1935 – November 1986) was a prolific German writer of mainly romantic fiction, many of whose books were best-sellers. Cordes was married to the fellow novelist Michael Horbach, who encouraged her to write. However her novels outsold his own. She was estimated to have 15 million books sold, while Horback had sales of about 4 million books.

In October 1986, Horbach shot his wife in the head with a revolver from his weapon collection. He then shot himself in an apparent murder-suicide attempt. He died after a week in intensive care. Provided by Wikipedia