Taking the classic route is FG Cottam, a former broadcaster and editor of men’s magazines FHM and Men’s Health who gave up his media career to write fiction. The hero of his fourth supernatural novel is, amusingly enough, a hammy TV ghost-buster. As a prime-time star, the dashing Julian Creed is the obvious person to call when a reclusive rock star, Martin Stride, detects strange phenomena on his vast Isle of Wight estate. Bursts of an old first world war song, “Roses of Picardy”, are heard in the night, and Stride’s son sees a ghostly soldier in the waiting room of the disused station on the property. Creed and his nubile helper, Elena Coyle, are drafted in to investigate, which is a problem as Julian doesn’t actually believe in ghosts.