This is the First True Crime/True Accounts Swap

By True Accounts we mean books which aren't quite the same as biographies. They usually center more around one big event, such as shipwrecks, kidnappings.

Rules:
*Official start time is Saturday, March 15, at 12:01 AM ET. Official timekeeping begins then
*You have 12 hours to leave a move. Otherwise you get bumped to the bottom.
*I will add any new players through the 4th person's turn, at the bottom of the list.
*Please send your reveal out to at least two other people, preferably in different time zones.
*Please include your BX'ing link in your reveal (for the new swap database)! Thanks!
*Please confirm you are playing.




5 steals

* 1. boomda181: ~ (~) :: ~
* 2. CdnBlueRose ~ (~) :: ~
* 3. Sunlightbub: ~ (~) :: ~
* 4. rebeccaljames: ~ (~) :: ~
* 5. luckaye: ~ (~) :: ~
* 6. Marlene: ~ (~) :: ~
* 7. Giz-angel: ~ (~) :: ~
* 8. Redhot-brat: ~ (~) :: ~

Good morning :wave: I guess I had better get my reveal together!

Lucie :bananadance:

I have send my reveal to you and will send it to someone else also.

Well I am off to bed. I will send boomda a pm. :wave:

What do the * mean?

That I am sure they know this swap is starting.
Will add yours. :whistle: :lol:

Hey Marlene, why am I on the list twice?

haha I had noticed that while you were typing i guess.

Luckily I had copied and saved the randomizer's result and now it is as it should be. :wacko: :lol:

Will get my reveal ready later tonight.....

I have found a book that I have already read. Therefore, I will be sending my reveal out soon.

Yikes! I was out shopping with my mama, man we did a lot of damage today. At any rate, I didn't realize that we had started. So, I am going to ask for Sunlightbbub's reveal.

Now I am going to go and create my reveal to ship off.

Sunlightbub's reveal:

Beyond Evil by Nathan Yates
Synopsis
The horrific murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman shocked and sickened the nation. The man found guilty of their murders is now one of the most reviled men in the country. As if his crime was not dreadful enough, he has recently admitted that he lied under oath about the circumstances of one of the murders. This in-depth book is written by investigative journalist Nathan Yates, who witnessed the murder hunt first-hand and even interviewed Huntley and former girlfriend Maxine Carr. Yates also has an exclusive source for contact with Ian Huntley and will have further revelations about how far Huntley has lied about what happened that tragic day.
Please note this is TBR ( so I shouldn't really be playing with it, but I AM nearly up to date!!)

This is the First True Crime/True Accounts Swap

By True Accounts we mean books which aren't quite the same as biographies. They usually center more around one big event, such as shipwrecks, kidnappings.

Rules:
*Official start time is Saturday, March 15, at 12:01 AM ET. Official timekeeping begins then
*You have 12 hours to leave a move. Otherwise you get bumped to the bottom.
*I will add any new players through the 4th person's turn, at the bottom of the list.
*Please send your reveal out to at least two other people, preferably in different time zones.
*Please include your BX'ing link in your reveal (for the new swap database)! Thanks!
*Please confirm you are playing.




* 1. boomda181: Beyond Evil (~) :: ~
* 2. CdnBlueRose ~ (~) :: ~
* 3. Sunlightbub: ~ (~) :: Beyond Evil
* 4. rebeccaljames: ~ (~) ::~
* 5. luckaye: ~ (~) :: ~
* 6. Marlene: ~ (~) :: ~
* 7. Giz-angel: ~ (~) :: ~
* 8. Redhot-brat: ~ (~) :: ~

Rosie requests Giz-Angel's reveal! :)

I'm headed out to bed..... bit of a stress headache tonight. I'll get my reveal out as soon as I get up/get a chance to get to the comp tomorrow

Off to work. Should be back about 2pm :)

I'm going to bed. I'll check in when I wake up.

Giz's reveal



The Case of Mary Bell: A Portrait of a Child Who Murdered

by Gitta Sereny

Synopsis
In 1968, 11-year-old Mary Bell was found guilty of the manslaughter of two young boys. This study asks why one child would murder another, and provides the background to the Bell case. The author also gives her account of the case of James Bulger, now that the debate has tragically re-opened.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5950310

Morning!!
Hey I see rebecca. So glad you are playing babe! :hug:

To my amazement both of the reveals I have never heard of. :o sound great. :bananadance:

Glad we have started.

This is the First True Crime/True Accounts Swap

By True Accounts we mean books which aren't quite the same as biographies. They usually center more around one big event, such as shipwrecks, kidnappings.

Rules:
*Official start time is Saturday, March 15, at 12:01 AM ET. Official timekeeping begins then
*You have 12 hours to leave a move. Otherwise you get bumped to the bottom.
*I will add any new players through the 4th person's turn, at the bottom of the list.
*Please send your reveal out to at least two other people, preferably in different time zones.
*Please include your BX'ing link in your reveal (for the new swap database)! Thanks!





Moves:
Boomda asks Sunny to reveal Beyond Evil
Rosie asks Giz to reveal The Case of Mary Bell

* 1. boomda181: Beyond Evil (~) :: ~
* 2. CdnBlueRose The Case of Mary Bell (~) :: ~
* 3. Sunlightbub: ~ (~) :: Beyond Evil
* 4. rebeccaljames: ~ (~) ::~
* 5. luckaye: ~ (~) :: ~
* 6. Marlene: ~ (~) :: ~
* 7. Giz-angel: ~ (~) :: The Case of Mary Bell
* 8. Redhot-brat: ~ (~) :: ~

Sunny It is your turn! :bananadance: what are you going to do. Steal? :pirate: or ask for a reveal :reveal:

Hi Marlene, your first swap as a hostess, yay! :bananadance:

Have fun! :bananacheer:

:lol: Hahaha Sorry I am laughing now. No I have been hostess before, Historical Swap if I remember correctly and maybe an ALS or 2. , but this is my first own idea swappy. Or is it? :wacko: Now I am wondering, was it my idea the Historical Fiction Swap?

So glad everyone turned up. :dance:
I expected that because this is a genre which I love and buy new books off, I'd expected that maybe all the books would been books I have read.
Not that i would have mind.

But that is not the case.
Blue are you playing in the Chick Lit Swap?

See we can still surprise you!

Funny thing is, I spend my days with crims.... you'd think I would be so OVER true crime. But no!

Well, as I haven't been around very long and never seen you as a host in the other swaps I assumed this would be a first. Interesting - did you start the HF swap in the beginning?

But starting a swap based on ones own idea like you or root did must be exciting.

Yes, I am playing the chicklit swap. After having no internet for two months I allowed myself to play a bit more this month and then get down to approx. 2 a month again... :D

BTW - giz, I received an anglophone Bookbox organised by German bookcrossers today and in there was an audiobook registered by you. Funny coincidence!

Good morning!! :coffee:

This is going to be a great swap!! Thanks Marlene for thinking of it, and bringing it to fruition! I'll check in and out today, I will be packing up and trying to enjoy one last day on the beach before heading to snowy Ontario again. Before I leave, I will make sure to send off a WHOLE bunch of moves for when I am MIA driving home.

Oh what a difference. from enjoying the beach back to the snow. :o
I know in America you can do that just by 2 hours in a car.

I remember when I was in LA , My aunty she lived in Anaheim, really close to DisneyLand.
She said Marlene and Alex (my boyfriend) we are going to the snow.

I thought huh? wth, but in just 2 hours we were indeed having so much fun in the snow. Was it Nevada? don't remember


Rosie, Lucie and Giz. I forgot to add the journal entry in the reveal I sent you.
Rosie could you once my book has been revealed please add it for me in the reveal thread? :kiss:
(it saves me to send 3 pm's) :)

Boomda hope the journey is a relaxing one. :)

I will, hon, no worries! :)

An audio from me? That is weird isn't it - I remember once I mooched a book from someone and didn't know it was a BC book and it had been reg by kislany! 6 degrees of separation and all that....

I would like Marlene's reveal please :)

Oke This was soo hard. so many books to chose from.
I decided to go for 2 writers I "know" for some years from a True Crime book Club.




Murdered Innocents by Corey Mitchell




On December 6th, 1991, fresh-faced teens Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas began to close up the Austin, Texas yogurt shop where they worked. They were joined by Jennifer's younger sister, Sarah, and her friend Amy Ayers. Less than an hour later all four girls were dead - apparent victims of a fire. But closer examination revealed that they had been bound and gagged, sexually assaulted, and shot execution-style. It was the most horrific crime the peaceful college town had seen since the infamous University of Texas Tower shootings in 1966. With no physical evidence or eyewitnesses and more than a hundred bizarre confessions to weed through, the Austin police faced one of their toughest cases ever. The family and friends who chanted "We will not forget," would have to wait nearly eight years before Robert Springsteen IV, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce, and Forrest Welborn - teenagers themselves at the time of the murders - were taken into custody.
out of 20 reviews on amazon.com

Murdered Innocents BC journal

and

Gone Forever by Diane Fanning



Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she disappeared. Three days later, her car was found, keys in the ignition. Later that day, her husband reported her missing-and a desperate search began.Her friends and family hoped against hope that Susan was not gone forever. But investigators became increasingly suspicious of Richard McFarland. When the charred, decomposed body of Susan McFarland was finally discovered at an overgrown farmstead outside of San Antonio, a new hunt began-for justice.McFarland maintained his innocence, and investigators only had circumstantial evidence against him. While headlines screamed out new details in the case, and police tried to gather more evidence, a blockbuster trial was about to begin. Then, Richard McFarland finally spoke....and a terrifying, chilling truth came out....

out of 20 reviews on amazon.com

Gone Forever BC Journal

Look good!

This is the First True Crime/True Accounts Swap

By True Accounts we mean books which aren't quite the same as biographies. They usually center more around one big event, such as shipwrecks, kidnappings.

Rules:
*Official start time is Saturday, March 15, at 12:01 AM ET. Official timekeeping begins then
*You have 12 hours to leave a move. Otherwise you get bumped to the bottom.
*I will add any new players through the 4th person's turn, at the bottom of the list.
*Please send your reveal out to at least two other people, preferably in different time zones.
*Please include your BX'ing link in your reveal (for the new swap database)! Thanks!





Moves:
Boomda asks Sunny to reveal Beyond Evil
Rosie asks Giz to reveal The Case of Mary Bell
Sunny asks fro Marlene's reveal Gone Forever and Murdered Innocents (2-offer)

* 1. boomda181: Beyond Evil (~) :: ~
* 2. CdnBlueRose The Case of Mary Bell (~) :: ~
* 3. Sunlightbub: Gone Forever and Murdered Innocents (~) :: Beyond Evil
* 4. rebeccaljames: ~ (~) ::~
* 5. luckaye: ~ (~) :: ~
* 6. Marlene: ~ (~) :: Gone Forever and Murdered Innocents (2-offer)
* 7. Giz-angel: ~ (~) :: The Case of Mary Bell
* 8. Redhot-brat: ~ (~) :: ~

Rebecca!!!! It is your turn! :bananadance: what are you going to do. Steal? :pirate: or ask for a reveal :reveal:

:pm: to Rebecca

And if nobody steals you can always pick something else woman. :hug:

I am trying to find the energy to go and get some groceries.

I pmed Rebecca. :wave:

Go for it Marleney :)

I'll steal The Case of Mary Bell from CdnBlueRose.

Nice swap picture! :giggle:

This is the First True Crime/True Accounts Swap

By True Accounts we mean books which aren't quite the same as biographies. They usually center more around one big event, such as shipwrecks, kidnappings.

Rules:
*Official start time is Saturday, March 15, at 12:01 AM ET. Official timekeeping begins then
*You have 12 hours to leave a move. Otherwise you get bumped to the bottom.
*I will add any new players through the 4th person's turn, at the bottom of the list.
*Please send your reveal out to at least two other people, preferably in different time zones.
*Please include your BX'ing link in your reveal (for the new swap database)! Thanks!





Moves:
Boomda asks Sunny to reveal Beyond Evil
Rosie asks Giz to reveal The Case of Mary Bell
Sunny asks for Marlene's reveal Gone Forever and Murdered Innocents (2-offer)
Rebecca starts the stealing! :pirate: and takes Mary Bell away from Rosie!
Rosie sticks with the :pirate: trend and steals Sunny's 2-fer!

* 1. boomda181: Beyond Evil (~) :: ~
* 2. CdnBlueRose Gone Forever and Murdered Innocents (1) :: ~
* 3. Sunlightbub: ?? (~) :: Beyond Evil
* 4. rebeccaljames: The Case of Mary Bell (1) ::~
* 5. luckaye: ~ (~) :: ~
* 6. Marlene: ~ (~) :: Gone Forever and Murdered Innocents (2-offer)
* 7. Giz-angel: ~ (~) :: The Case of Mary Bell
* 8. Redhot-brat: ~ (~) :: ~

Sunny, your Innocence is Gone Forever! :bananadance: what are you going to do. Steal? :pirate: or ask for a reveal :reveal:

:pm: to Sunny

well as one of the books out is mine, one just got stolen from me and one is a book I got Giz for an exchange :giggle: I'll ask for a reveal..but whose??

As Rebecca is here , I'll ask for her reveal :)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by JOHN BERENDT

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

From the book jacket:
"Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Women's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else."