Mysteries
Thursday’s Mystery eBooks
The Marlow Murder Club
by Robert Thorogood
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One’s hilarious murder mystery series Death in Paradise
Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow.
Nothing ever happens in Marlow. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don’t believe her story. It’s an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can’t be left for dead like that.
The Poison Tree
by Alan Prendergast
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution.
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard’s seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle—just in case her brother missed.
Devoted in Death
by J. D. Robb
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
When Eve Dallas examines a fresh body in a seedy alleyway in downtown Manhattan, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue. Carved into the skin is the shape of a heart—initials inside reading “E” and “D”…
In Arkansas, Ella-Loo and her recently released ex-con boyfriend, Darryl, don’t ever intend to part again. So they hit the road, but then things get a little messy and they wind up killing someone—an experience that stokes a fierce, wild desire in Ella-Loo. A desire for Darryl. And a desire to kill again.
The Lost Bones
by Kendra Elliot
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
When former FBI agent Cate Wilde moves back to Widow’s Island, she envisions a simpler life than the one she had in law enforcement. But Cate’s past has a habit of catching up with her. When she receives a mysterious package containing a child’s mandible, she finds herself thrust back into action.
The mandible leads Cate to an unsolved case she worked seven years ago—the kidnapping of a three-year-old girl. At the time, Cate suspected the girl was kidnapped by her overprotective father. But after they both vanished, the case went cold.
Deadly Hearts
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
EVERY BEAT – Mary Alford
CHAINED TO A DREAM – Julie Brown
TIME WILL TELL – Pamela Ferguson
THE INN AT CRANBERRY COVE – June Foster
SEE YOU IN 48 – Robin Densmore Fuson
HIDDEN DANGER – Gail Pallotta
VERDICT AT THE RIVER’S EDGE – Colleen Snyder
Fly, My Darling
by Lisa K. Richter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
A soulful memoir of desire and a woman’s midlife quest to let go—in jazz and in life.
Lisa—a classically trained pianist, wife, and mother—yearns for something she can’t define. After she begins a study of jazz improv with an outspoken, trailblazing musician from the ’70s girl band era, a woman who encourages Lisa to let go musically and emotionally, life takes an unexpected, irrevocable turn. When they become lovers, what began as a desire to learn jazz becomes a lesson in letting go: with music, with an old way of living, and finally with life itself.
With rhythmic, imaginative prose, Fly, My Darling explores the resilience of love, the weight of loss, the undeniable pull toward freedom, and the transformation that occurs when a woman finally asks, What do I really want?
Something Borrowed, Something Black
by Loren Estleman
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Trying to go straight, former contract killer Peter Macklin carries out a hit in the Lone Star state, in this page-turning hard-boiled thriller
Johns Davis has just left the Alamo when he feels the garrote wrap around his neck. The bookie slams his foot on the gas, sending the car into oncoming traffic. It bounces off a van, hops the curb, and crashes into a hotel, knocking Davis unconscious and breaking the neck of his would-be assassin. Davis can breathe again, but just for a moment. When the mob wants you dead, they’ll always send another killer.
Black House
by Stephen King, Peter Straub
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.
The Temptation of Charlotte North
by Camilla Bruce
Kindle $11.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
A rebellious young woman desperate to escape her predetermined life.
The handsome but married priest who has caught her eye.
And the resolute schoolteacher who values science above all.
In 1910, on a small, remote island that boasts more sheep than people, the fates of Charlotte North, Jasper Hill, and Ruth Russel are perched on the edge of a cliff, and a strange wind is blowing. . . .
Wednesday’s Mystery eBooks
THE FRENCH PARADOX
by Ellen Crosby
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
In 1949, during her junior year abroad in Paris, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis bought several inexpensive paintings of Marie-Antoinette by a little-known 18th century female artist. She also had a romantic relationship with Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery’s French grandfather – until recently, a well-kept secret.
Seventy years later, Cricket Delacroix, Lucie’s neighbor and Jackie’s schoolfriend, is donating the now priceless paintings to a Washington, DC museum. And Lucie’s grandfather is flying to Virginia for Cricket’s 90th birthday party, hosted by her daughter Harriet. A washed-up journalist, Harriet is rewriting a manuscript Jackie left behind about Marie-Antoinette and her portraitist. She’s also adding tell-all details about Jackie, sure to make the book a bestseller.
Stay
by Jane Bailey
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
It was meant to be Caitlin’s perfect summer, but betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend, she finds herself hitchhiking home alone, heartbroken, and penniless.
When a smiling family pulls up on the roadside to help her on her way, she’s relieved – they seem so friendly, safe. And when they offer her a warm bed in their isolated house for the night, she’s grateful not to have to travel back alone in the dark. In any case, she’s in no rush to get home, where a grave secret is lying in wait to blow her family apart.
The Respian Man
by Mark Kadoshnikov, Sarah Kadoshnikov
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Time stops for the innocent people of Oswella, giving the Earthers amongst them all the power.
On Earth, the only thing Preston ever fought was his illness – now he battles a medieval army in an unfamiliar world. Armed with a lifetime of studying warfare, he hides behind the stolen armor of a mercenary officer in order to keep his secrets safe.
When a rogue Earther exploits the time delay, he shatters a nation’s faith, robs its treasury, and ignites a brutal war. Armies march, alliances fracture, and a dangerous shift in power throws the peaceful Isolated Isles into chaos.
Her quiet life uprooted, a tournament fighter seeks revenge for a crime she can’t remember, and the leader of a secret society searches for a missing colleague and the truths he’s discovered. Their journeys uncover a conspiracy far more sinister than they ever could have imagined.
Extinction C-14
by David Archer, Blake Banner
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 6-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series!
Two questions are eating Nero, the head of ODIN, the Office of the Director of Intelligence Networks: where is Dr. Billy Squire? Is he still alive?
He’s not the only one asking those question. The CIA want to know, so do the Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. So does the President. And so does the Mossad.
A Killing in Amish Country
by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris investigate the 2009 death of an Amish wife and mother found murdered in her own bed.
At just 30 years old, with dark-blonde hair and freckles, Barbara Weaver was as pretty as the women depicted on the covers of her favorite “bonnet” stories – romance novels set in Amish America. Barbara had everything she’d ever wanted: five beautiful children, a home, her faith, and a husband named Eli. But while Barbara was happy to live as the Amish have for centuries – without modern conveniences, Eli was tempted by technology: cell phones, the Internet, and sexting. Online he called himself “Amish Stud” and found no shortage of “English” women looking for love and sex. Twice he left Barbara and their children, was shunned, begged for forgiveness, and had been welcomed back to the church.
Glitz
by Elmore Leonard
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Elmore Leonard’s Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. “The King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable noir tale of a mama’s boy psycho killer with a vendetta against a Miami cop. A cat-and-mouse tale with claws, Glitz is thrilling, frightening, explosive, surprising, everything a great thriller is supposed to be—superior crime fiction the genre’s late greats, John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al, would have been proud to call their own. Elmore Leonard, the creator of magnificent mayhem and truly unforgettable characters
Mud Men
by J. A. Nunn
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Author J. A. Nunn returns with a sequel to his debut novel, The Stuff What Actually Is, chronicling the new adventures of young GI Mervyn Gower as he navigates his World War II posting to the Jim Crow South.
Mervyn Gower, a naive young Army draftee from an all-white immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles, believes the best way to prove he’s a “real” American is in combat. Assigned to a segregated Army base in the Jim Crow South in 1942, Gower soon finds himself in hot water after a drunken brawl. Instead of being demoted or dishonorably discharged, however, he’s given a post that not enough qualified Black GIs can fill and that few white soldiers want—leader of a squad of Black recruits.
Beg for Mercy : The Collapse
by Jami Gray
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The world didn’t end in fire and explosions, instead after an intensifying panic of disease, food shortages, wild weather, and floundering economies, it collapsed like slow falling dominoes, until what remained of humanity battles for survival in a harsh new reality.
After escaping a brutal betrayal that left his world of secrets soaked in blood, Math leads a handful of survivors on a mission of revenge. He’s spent years on his enemy’s trail, his focus crystal clear – until his nemesis changes the rules. When one of his own is used to bait an inevitable trap, Math must seek an alliance with Fate’s Vultures, an enigmatic crew guaranteed to screw with his long-held rule – rely on no one.
Subtraction
by K. W. Franklin
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Can society survive in a world where humans live for generations?
Professor Herbert Blane’s Life-Extension Therapy (LET) has changed the world, allowing humans to live for centuries. The first recipients of LET—the so-called early generations—amassed wealth and power with no intention of ever stepping aside. Now, society is fractured. Younger generations find themselves scrambling for resources, forced into cities where skyscrapers stretch a mile into the sky, leaving streets in perpetual twilight.
As resentment deepens, the New Generations Initiative (NGI) – a covert network of disenfranchised scientists, engineers, and strategists – rises to challenge the ruling elite. Led by scientist Boris Bagan and joined by Cynthia Wu and Curtis James, two brilliant researchers from Blane’s own lab, NGI launches an underground movement that engages in daring acts of sabotage to fight for a future worth living for. But will their revolt be enough to heal a broken society? Will they be remembered as traitors . . . or the only ones brave enough to change the future?
The Crypto King’s Muse
by Francesca Frost
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Crypto is risky. Love is riskier. But Charlotte is done playing it safe.
Charlotte Gordon-Lennox doesn’t have time to mourn her losses. Once a successful international fashion entrepreneur, she’s now buried in debt, hustling for survival in the volatile world of cryptocurrency. When a job at Riverbank—a powerful crypto platform—promises financial salvation, she grabs it. But there’s a catch.
One of Riverbank’s enigmatic cofounders is Duane Blacklock, a brilliant, secretive CEO known throughout the industry as the Crypto King and whose path once crashed with Charlotte’s in a way she’s never forgotten or forgiven.
Ironwood
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Sworn to protect a scenic island meant to be far from the evils of the mainland, Detective Sergeant Stilwell can feel danger closing in.
Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that his posting on Catalina Island is no paradise, but to most residents, it seems blissfully separated—by twenty-two miles of ocean—from the troubles of Los Angeles County. But now a threat is coming to his safe haven.
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
A Forgotten Murder
by Jude Deveraux
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
An English manor home, an unsolved mystery, too many suspects to count… It’s the perfect holiday for romance novelist Sara Medlar.
Sara Medlar, her niece Kate and their friend Jack need a change of scenery so Sara arranges for them to visit an old friend in England. Upon arrival at Oxley Manor, a centuries-old estate converted to a luxury hotel, Kate and Jack quickly realize Sara is up to something. They learn that Sara has also invited a number of others to join them…
Elevated Madness and Other Stories
by John D. Ottini
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition. (Florida Writers Association)
The real world is filled with people who live quiet, productive, uneventful lives. These are not the characters you’ll meet in author John D. Ottini’s world of twisted fiction.
Elevated Madness & Other Stories consists of 11 short stories that will amuse, shock, and enlighten you. The twists and turns in each story will keep you guessing until the conclusion, where you’ll be left shaking your head and wondering, “Why didn’t I see that coming?”
Library of Elusive Truths Complete Box Set
by Jacie Middlemann
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Dark secrets, betrayal, a gripping murder mystery, magic…and a story of true love.
A small town filled with secrets, a family with more than a few dark secrets of their own, a challenging and suspense-filled escape from unexpected danger, and a love that survives it all.
Welcome to Rome Legend’s world. She’s not overly happy with it at the moment, however captivating and intriguing it might be. And she can easily count the reasons for it on one hand…namely her brothers and her father. She’s not the slightest bit thrilled with any of them and doesn’t expect that to change anytime soon…
Missing … and Presumed Dead
by Michael Fleeman
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
On a cold Southern night in 2013, under a full moon, twenty-year-old Heather Elvis parked her car at a boat ramp along the Intracoastal Waterway and was never seen again.
The disappearance of the beautiful, vivacious hostess at a popular Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, restaurant made international headlines and triggered a sweeping high-stakes investigation that exposed a twisted web of deception, betrayal, sexual obsession, police corruption, and revenge. But Heather’s body was never located. A series of sensational trials involving a handsome restaurant coworker and his Disneyland-obsessed wife resulted in shocking verdicts—but no body—as her family desperately sought closure and fought for justice, and a resort town struggled to regain calm.
The Search for the Green River Killer
by Carlton Smith, Tomás Guillén
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
New York Times Bestseller: From the journalists who covered the story, the shocking crimes of Gary Ridgway, America’s most prolific serial murderer.
In the 1980s and 1990s, forty-nine women in the Seattle area were brutally murdered, their bodies dumped along the Green River and Pacific Highway South in Washington State. Despite an exhaustive investigation—even serial killer Ted Bundy was consulted to assist with psychological profiling—the sadistic killer continued to elude authorities for nearly twenty years.
Need to Know
by Karen Cleveland
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Vivian Miller. High-powered CIA analyst, happily married to a man she adores, mother of four beautiful children. Until the moment she makes a shocking discovery that makes her question everything she believes.
She thought she knew her husband inside and out. But now she wonders if it was all a lie. How far will she go to learn the truth? And does she really . . .
. . . NEED TO KNOW?
Charleston Confessions Boxed Set One
by Robin Cutler
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
She ran from Charleston. Charleston never let her go.
To heal her family’s wounds, Emery Westbrook must stop running and face the lies that drove her away. How much truth can a family survive? Some secrets are buried beneath generations of Southern silence. Others are carved into porch swings and whispered through marsh grass. The most dangerous ones? They’re the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
Get your copy today and dive into this contemporary romance series.
Strong Medicine
by Arthur Hailey
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
It starts as a routine case: Mary Rowe contracts hepatitis from unclean drinking water, and the infection should work its way out of her system in a few days. But when the illness worsens and she slips into a coma, Dr. Andrew Jordan is forced to tell Rowe’s husband that his wife is dying. It’s 1957 and there simply isn’t a drug that can save her. Pharmaceutical saleswoman Celia de Grey then offers Dr. Jordan a sample of an experimental drug that cures the dying woman overnight. This marks the beginning of an epic journey—and a great romance—for a dedicated internist and an idealistic, ambitious woman.
Howling Dark: The Sun Eater
by Christopher Ruocchio
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to discover a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has pursued false leads for years among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries, but Hadrian remains determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war.
Desperate to find answers, Hadrian must venture beyond the security of the Sollan Empire and among the Extrasolarians who dwell between the stars.
The Family Secret
by Patricia Gibney
Kindle $4.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
Deflated balloons on the floor. Sandwiches curling on plates. The evidence of a normal birthday party a shocking contrast to the bodies of the mother and her twelve-year-old daughter lying on their beds, their secret taken to the grave…
When Detective Lottie Parker arrives at the devastating scene the day after Freya Healey’s birthday party, a wave of sorrow overcomes her. Holding Freya’s cold white hand, she vows to find justice for her and her parents lying dead in the next room, killed just after the last guest had gone.
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
The Body in the Malibran Theater
by Barbara Marangon
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
During the restoration of the Malibran Theater in Venice, an ancient mummy of an Asian woman is discovered buried under the stage. Detective Antonio Galimberti and Professor Francesca Pavan, an expert in Chinese antiquities, are called to the scene. Two things are found on the mummy: a tiara of inestimable value and a diary. The only other lead they have is that the theater had been built on the foundation of Marco Polo’s house.
The next day, the precious tiara is stolen from the forensic department and later the suspected thief is discovered dead—without the tiara. A murderer has it now. Eventually, two people who can identify the killer are also found murdered…
The Innocent Wife
by Sally Royer-Derr
Kindle Bargain Rating: 4.2 #ad
In this house, love and betrayal sleep side by side…
Olivia Hanson’s husband, Lucas, is her rock; charming and successful, he offers her safety, security and the life she always dreamed of. In return, Olivia is a picture-perfect housewife, smiling and supportive. Until she meets Lucas’s new colleague, Natalie, and sees the flash of hatred in her eyes.
Olivia only wants to clear up the misunderstanding. But when she befriends Natalie, secrets come tumbling out that expose the ugly side of Olivia’s beautiful marriage and she realizes there is another young woman caught up in Lucas’s lies. Olivia learned long ago that her husband is no saint, but he’s about to discover that neither is she…
Classic Tales of Horror
by Multiple Authors
Kindle Bargain Rating: 4.2 #ad
If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!
Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities.
This box set includes all the seven volumes of the collection.
Big Bad Wool
by Leonie Swann
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
In the highly anticipated follow-up to the breakout offbeat hit Three Bags Full (now a major motion picture: The Sheep Detectives), an enterprising flock of sheep must get to the bottom of just who—or what—is leaving a trail of grisly destruction in its wake.
With one solved mystery under their wooly belts, the time has come for the sheep of Glennkill to explore Europe. Together with their new shepherdess, Rebecca, they move into their winter quarters in the shadow of a French chateau. But their new home is far from idyllic. A number of sheep from a previous flock have disappeared, and deer are dying unnatural deaths in the forest. The strange goats from the neighboring pasture have a theory: a werewolf. Could that be real, or just a fantasy?
A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Tuck Jameson’s brother Clay has vanished, lured into The Body—a religious cult wielding cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform members into devout automatons. With just three days until Clay’s conversion is irreversible, Tuck is desperate.
Joining forces with Adam Shimura, a former mentor turned black ops agent with ambiguous allegiances, Tuck plunges into a perilous quest to rescue his brother.
But Chief Elder Brother Moody and his zealous followers are determined to thwart Tuck at every turn. As the tension escalates, a stunning prophecy reveals that the crisis transcends personal struggle—it threatens the very soul of America and perhaps the entire world.
Fever of the Bone
by Val McDermid
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A criminal profiler races to catch a serial killer preying upon teenagers in this shocking crime thriller by the author of The Wire in the Blood.
He is psychologist and criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill’s worst nightmare—a killer driven by the most perverted hungers and unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer with a long shopping list of victims who leaves no trail. The murder-mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own, but Hill quickly realizes that it’s just the beginning of a chilling campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people—victims that the monster has been grooming through a social networking site.
Dear Teacher
by Ruth Harrow
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
They say confronting your past can set you free. They lied.
Desperate for closure, I travel to Spain to track down the abusive teacher who shattered my childhood. But on a sun-baked vineyard run by a charming British couple, I get shivers of recognition down my spine.
One of them is chillingly familiar… I slip quietly into their lives, feigning friendship while searching for the truth. But nothing is what it seems here. Behind their welcoming smiles lurk the worst secrets. Their sprawling vineyard is home to secrets the couple would kill to protect.
Their staff behave bizarrely. Some whisper warnings. Others are too terrified to speak up. People vanish from the staff list like they were never there.
All His Pretty Girls
by Charly Cox
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Detective Alyssa Wyatt is hunting a serial killer. She doesn’t know that he’s hunting her.
A woman is found naked, badly beaten and barely alive in the New Mexico mountains. The shocking discovery plunges Albuquerque Detective Alyssa Wyatt into a case that will test her to the limit.
It appears that Callie McCormick is the latest plaything of a shadowy psychopath that leaves a long shadow on the streets of New Mexico an individual linked to a string of deaths but leaving no evidence…
The Sheriff’s Discovery
by Elizabeth Horst
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Sheriff Tom Hutchinson, a relatively new lawman in a sprawling county out in the Wild West, is determined to protect his precinct from the many threats of criminals no matter what it takes.
Meanwhile, in a nearby small town, Rob Jackson is facing the trials of farming and needs to take an unexpected trip for supplies. When Rob leaves his place in the capable hands of his wife Sally and the local Trapper Jones, a young and mysterious stranger named Jim shows up.
Sally is only too happy to take Jim under her wing rather than deal with the likes of the rough and grubby Trapper Jones. Yet, Jones is suspicious. Something is off about Jim, and he seems to have a story to hide.
Targeted
by M. William Phelps
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
A New York Times–bestselling author’s account of a Georgia deputy accused of murder: “A gripping, no-holds-barred work of investigative journalism” (Steve Jackson, author of No Stone Unturned).
When her missing boyfriend is found murdered, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a local sheriff’s deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as New York Times–bestselling author and investigative journalist M. William Phelps digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt.