When a man found stabbed to death in a gutter in a town in France turns out to be a convict missing from a nearby prison, a dogged police inspector launches an investigation that turns up long-buried secrets about the dead man’s beautiful daughter and her hot-tempered American husband. Set in 1931 and written in the style of Georges Simenon, MALNIVEAU PRISON is the first volume of Ariel S. Winter’s extraordinary debut novel, THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH.