"POLAR BEARS IN THE KITCHEN maintains the consistently high standard of Joan Leslie Woodruff's previous books. In her spare, lucid and perceptive style, this time she unravels the twisted mind of a serial killer with the whimsical help of her neighborhood ghosts. Ms Woodruff writes with the confidence of someone familiar with the extremes of human experience, investing her heroine, Myra Whitehawk, with a cool, yet empathetic intelligence. Perhaps...