The Watcher

The horror was starting again.
That is the opening sentence in this novel, a supernatural
thriller about vengeance, love, courage--and getting one more
chance! The story deals with mindlinks, thought transference,
reincarnation and mindless obedience to a father's demonic will.
The heroine is a middle aged woman named Janet Stapleton,
who lost the use of her legs in a mysterious car accident that
killed her husband, Russ. For reasons she doesn't understand,
her astral body is being called upon to witness a series of
brutal slayings, the murder of people she or her husband once knew.
She befriends and falls in love with a Manhattan police lieutenant named Eric Siuda, who is investigating the slayings. Together they sort out what is happening
and try, with Russ Stapleton's beyond-the-grave help, to
thwart the villain, a psychopath dying of AIDS, who seeks eternal life
through reincarnation in his imbecilic son's body.
The conclusion pits Janet and Eric against this villain in an unearthly showdown to the death.