The butcher's ball - Mark Cohen

Will Cloud, the laid-back Irish detective of Brass Monkeys, throws himself into another mystery while unwittingly wreaking havoc on world financial markets. The dead man is Roy Palloni, the ambitious deputy manager of one of Britain's most prestigious merchant banks, who has blown out his brains after gambling away the bank's entire fortune. Or has he? Toby Slaker, the investment manager, suspects there is more to the story and uncovers insalubrious links with Roy's celebrity clients. Will, with the help of Jezebel, the virtual woman who inhabits the bank's computer systems, reveals, quite literally, more than anyone bargained for