You can’t alway tell that summer has arrived, especially in the Seattle area, where we usually don’t count on warm, dry weather until after the fourth of July. What you can count on, however, is a slew of recommended summer reads put out by various print book editors. Summer is the season that publishers use to release mysteries, thrillers and breezy fiction. Books that can easily be consumed beach-side or while en route to somewhere. No thinking involved. Here are three books recently reviewed that have caught my attention. “The Year of the Fog” by Michelle Richmond. Marketed as an edge of your seat read about a soon to be step-mom who who looses track of her fiance’s little girl during an outing on a foggy beach in San Francisco. “Life’s a Beach” by Claire Cook (author of “Must Love Dogs”) about two sisters in their forties and the ties that bind them together. Any story that has Red Hat Realtors in it sounds too funny not to try. And finally, “Hooked” by Matt Richtel has been blurbed by nightsandweekends.com as “a chilling techno-thriller that’s guaranteed to make you just the teensiest bit paranoid.” Short chapters, page turner, thriller…throw me the sunscreen. I’m here for the afternoon.