Literary Market
For agents placing narrative nonfiction with a cinematic, document-driven spine.
Last updated July 31, 2026
Narrative nonfiction / memoir with a true-crime engine and a primary archive. Voice is granddaughter-investigator, not true-crime narrator. Sample pages go to agents on request.
Think archive-forward family investigation and international money: the terrain of books that sit between memoir and documented true crime. Exact published comps are used in private agent materials; publicly, the differentiator is the archive of more than 500 documents and the reversed mystery (person found, fortune missing).
Elisabeth Bierschenk Hitz, granddaughter of Anna Maria Hitz. Project began as oral history at New York University. Sole rights holder. Works in English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. Full bio.
Request the book proposal and sample pages: elisabeth@thehitzinheritance.com.