num_pages: 288
description: A high-concept psychological chiller about a troubled married couple on a house swap from hell. An Anchor Original.Mark and Steph live an idyllic life with their young daughter in sunny Cape Town until one day when three men in masks violently break in. Traumatized but physically unharmed Mark and Steph are unable to return to normal and are living in constant fear. When a friend suggests they take a restorative vacation abroad via a popular house-swapping website it sounds like the perfect plan. They find a nice artistic couple with a charming apartment in Paris who would love to come to Cape Town. How could Mark and Steph resist the idyllic light-strewn pictures and the promise of a romantic getaway? But once they arrive in Paris they quickly realize that nothing is as advertised. As their perfect holiday takes a deadly turn the cracks in their relationship grow ever wider and dark secrets from Marks past begin to emerge.Deftly alternating between two complex and compelling narrators The Apartment is a terrifying tour de force of horror of psychological thrills and of chilling suspense.
language: English
title: The Apartment
publisher: Anchor