又是被封面吸引的书。封面太美了，神秘而有风情。
1931年的马来西亚，仁12岁，在一位医生家里当仆人，医生对他很好，他学会了读书写字，医生临死以前要求他帮他找回他多年以前失去的一根手指，现在在一个朋友那里，仁要找回来一起下葬。智莲是一个少女，她的父亲去世后，母亲嫁给了继父，一个性格冷酷的商人，继父有一个儿子信，他们同岁。信长的很帅，但是他和父亲的关系紧张，父亲经常打他。智莲和母亲也很怕继父。智莲本来想要读大学，但是继父不支持，她只好学习了裁缝，业余时间在舞厅当舞女，一次和一个客人跳舞，她偶然从客人的口袋里发现了一节手指装在一根玻璃试管里。
医生死后，仁按照医生的嘱托，去找他的一个朋友威廉，也是一个医生。威廉也来自英国，他在英国有未婚妻，但是他还是很喜欢马来本地的女孩子，乌黑的长发，温顺的性格。仁很聪明，威廉很喜欢他，让他在家里当仆人。
智莲想要把那根手指还给那个销售员，可是却发现那个销售员居然离奇死亡了，这个巧合让智莲很害怕，她求助于信。此时信已经在新加坡读医学院，暑假回家准备去威廉的医院实习。于是莲和信来到威廉的医院。和仁那条线也开始有交集了。智莲和信之间有种莫名的情愫，但是因为他们是兄妹，所以也有种禁忌之恋的味道。我喜欢。
最后居然是医院的一个医生偷偷对外售卖断指，因为在当地的风俗里，断指可以带来好运。由此引发的一系列事件。不过真正吸引我的是几个主角，我都还挺喜欢的。女主智，聪明上进坚强美丽，她拒绝了高富帅同学Robert的追求，因为她喜欢哥哥信，男主信，酷酷的，也很有主见，很可靠，很帅，仁，虽然是个小仆人，可是聪明好学，善良守信，医生Willianm,虽然性格比较软弱，但是莫名也挺吸引人的。
最后结局挺好的，信带着智莲去新加坡，他学习医学，智莲学习护理，William自杀了，但是他为仁留了一笔奖学金，让仁去上学，接受正规教育，仁很有天赋，肯定会成为一个优秀的医生。William的同事，另外一个医生要转去新加坡的医院，他愿意带仁一起去，这样信，智，仁三个人就会在新加坡团聚了。
挺喜欢的，有声书的narrator是很好听的英式英语，听着太享受了。
A young houseboy and a dressmaker’s apprentice get drawn into a mystery in 1930s Malaya.
It is May 1931, and 11-year-old Ren’s master, Dr. MacFarlane, is dying. Before he takes his last breath, MacFarlane gives Ren a mission: Find the doctor’s missing finger, amputated years ago and now in the possession of a friend, and bury it in his grave before the 49 days of the soul have elapsed. In another town, Ji Lin has given up dreams of university study to sew dresses during the day and work a second job in a dance hall; one evening, she is approached by a salesman who presses something into her hand during a dance: a severed finger in a glass specimen tube. By the next day, the salesman is dead—and his won’t be the last mysterious death to plague the area. Ji Lin’s search for the finger’s owner and Ren’s search for the digit itself eventually draw the two together and in the process ensnare everyone from Ji Lin’s taciturn stepbrother to Ren’s new master and his other household servants. Choo (The Ghost Bride, 2013) continues her exploration of Malayan folklore here with questions that point to the borders where the magical and the real overlap: Is someone murdering citizens of the Kinta Valley, or is it a were-tiger, a beast who wears human skin? Can spirits communicate with the living? Should superstitions—lucky numbers, rituals—govern a life? Choo weaves her research in with a feather-light touch, and readers will be so caught up in the natural and supernatural intrigue that the serious themes here about colonialism and power dynamics, about gender and class, are absorbed with equal delicacy.