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Apesmom's post in the Romance thread (link here) reminded me that the South Africa Kobo store can also sometimes have some bargains in mysteries too, even with the added VAT, and possibly, depending on your method of payment, some forex fees. I spotted a few that might be of interest:

Corrupted is the most recent (2015) title in Lisa Scottoline's Rosato legal series. It's R 48.42 right now, which works out to about US $3.00 using my forex website of choice.
link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ato-dinunzio-3

Spoiler:

Hot on the heels of ACCUSED and BETRAYED, CORRUPTED is the third legal thriller in New York Times bestseller Lisa Scottoline's electrifying Rosato & Di Nunzio series.

For Bennie Rosato, founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm, failure has never been an option. Thirteen years ago, she took on Jason Leftavick, a twelve-year-old boy who was sent to a juvenile detention center after fighting a class bully. Bennie couldn't free Jason, and his remains the one case that haunts her.

Now out of prison, Jason's adulthood hasn't been much easier. And when he is indicted for killing the same bully he fought with as a child, Bennie sees no choice but to represent him. She doesn't know whether to believe his innocence, but she knows she knows this time she cannot let him down.
Now, as she is forced to relive the darkest period of her life, Bennie will do everything in her power to get the truth, and justice...

The Detective's Secret is the third in the Detective's Daughter series by Lesley Thomson. It's R 35.20, or about US $2.20.
link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ive-s-secret-1

Spoiler:

Stella was the Detective's Daughter. Now she's solving cases of her own.
A man has died under a late night train and Stella Darnell suspects it's murder. Now she's stirring up the past with questions that lead to an unsolved case from twenty years ago.
Her friend Jack Harmon has promised to help. From his new home at the top of an old water tower, he has a perfect bird's eye view of west London.
If he watches through binoculars he will learn who has secrets. He will learn who plans to kill. But up there, in the silence, Jack and Stella won't see the danger until it's too late...

Every Secret Thing is a non-series title by Laura Lippman. It's also R 35.20, or about US $2.20.
link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...ecret-thing-10

Spoiler:

It is early evening, summer time and hot. Two eleven-year-old girls, Alice and Ronnie, are on their way home from a swimming party when they happen to see a baby's stroller, with baby girl sleeping inside, left unattended on the top step of a house. Ronnie says to Alice: 'We have to take care of this baby.' But what exactly does she mean?

Four days later the body of little Olivia Barnes is discovered in a hut in Baltimore's rambling Leakin Park by a young rookie detective, Nancy Porter. What can have happened in those four days to bring about this appalling crime? The girls are arrested and found guilty. Seven years later Ronnie and Alice, now eighteen, are released from their separate prisons, back into their old neighbourhood where the mother of baby Olivia still lives. Another child goes missing, and Nancy Porter and her partner get the case ...

Ascension by Gregory Dowling is R 44.05, or about US $2.75.
link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/ascension-57

Spoiler:

Wonderful . . . I loved being transported to my favourite time in my favourite city' - ANDREA DI ROBILANT

'A special thriller set in the Venetian past - its colours and intrigues so vividly described'- FRANCESCO DA MOSTO

When a young tour guide, Alvise Marangon, offers to help an English Grand Tourist, little does he know that it will lead to his being embroiled in blackmail and conspiracy. To add to his woes, he is then forcibly recruited into the city’s powerful secret service to investigate a murder case. A reluctant spy he may be, but he is a gifted one. Amidst the world of gambling dens and courtesans, something momentous is being planned for the Feast of the Ascension, Venice's most important and spectacular holiday, and it seems that only Alvise can prevent the day turning into bloody mayhem.

Alone with the Dead is the first in the PC Donal Lynch series by James Nally. It's R 10.63 or about US $0.67.
link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...lynch-thriller

Spoiler:

‘IMPECCABLE DESCRIPTIONS MADE THE STORY COME ALIVE … EXHILARATING STUFF’ THE SUN

*The first in an electrifying new British detective series starring PC Donal Lynch.*

Meet PC Donal Lynch. Irish runaway. Insomniac. Functioning alcoholic. Donal is new to working the beat in London, trying his best to forget that night. After all, there aren’t many police officers who can say they have a convicted murderer for an ex-girlfriend. So when a woman is murdered on his patch, Donal throws himself into the case. As the first person on the scene,Donal can’t forget the horrific sight that faced him – and he knows this case can’t go unsolved. But how do you solve a case with no lead suspect and no evidence? As his past catches up with him, Donal is forced to confront his demons and the girl he left behind. But what will crack first, the case or Donal? Chilling, brutal, addictive – if you like Tim Weaver and James Oswald, you will LOVE James Nally.

The Camel Club by David Baldacci is the first in the Camel Club series. It's R 36.29, or about US $2.28.
link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/eb...e-camel-club-2

Spoiler:

The Camel Club by bestselling sensation David Baldacci is the exciting first instalment of a breathtaking series.

The man known as Oliver Stone has no official past. He spends most days camped opposite the White House, hoping to expose corruption wherever he finds it. But the stakes are raised when he and his friends, a group of conspiracy theorist misfits known as The Camel Club, accidentally witness the murder of an intelligence analyst. Especially when the authorities are seemingly happy to write it off as a suicide.

For Secret Service agent Alex Ford, monitoring the 'investigation', the suicide verdict doesn't ring true. As punishment for sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, he is reassigned to bodyguard duties. His abilities are tested to the limit when he is sent to protect the President during a visit to his hometown, where a terrorist cell has spent months plotting an event that will shake the world.

Meanwhile, America's powerful intelligence chief Carter Gray is unnerved when he glimpses the face of an old acquaintance in Arlington Cemetery - but it is the face of a man supposedly long dead . .
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And as The Camel Club is poised to expose a conspiracy that reaches into the heart of Washington's highly secretive corridors of power, Alex Ford finds out that his worst nightmare is about to happen . . .

Split Second by David Baldacci is the first in the King and Maxwell series. It's also R 36.29, or about US $2.28.
link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/split-second-6

Spoiler:

Split Second is the first in the gripping King and Maxwell series by bestselling author David Baldacci.

When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter, his life. But what stole his attention? And why was Ritter shot?

Eight years later Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career is stopped short: presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection.
The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter fiasco and join forces with attractive ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what happened in those critical moments.

Meanwhile, high-ranking members of the legal system and key witnesses from both cases are going missing. King is losing friends, colleagues and clients fast and his ex-lover, Joan Dillinger, is playing curious games - she wants Sean back, but she also owes him for something . . .

Keep in mind you need to be in the Kobo South Africa store already, and you still have to allow for VAT (looks to be 14%) and any foreign credit card fees. Still, some of these offer pretty good savings over Amazon US prices. And some may be couponable if you can find a coupon code that works in South Africa that you haven't already used.