Across five novels, Carline Bouilhet draws on real-life observation to create stories of intrigue, murder and mystery, with memorable characters and a strong sense of place.
Some places welcome you in. Others keep their secrets behind the gate.
Set on the Central Coast of New South Wales, The Close follows twelve women living between bush and sea, until murder shatters the community they call home.
Remote beauty can hide the darkest intentions.
A suspenseful mystery shaped by isolation, danger and the secrets that emerge when an extraordinary place becomes part of the story.
Every connection has another side.
A mystery of hidden motives, unexpected connections and secrets waiting beneath a polished surface.
The past rarely stays where you leave it.
A crime and suspense story about human motives, hidden histories and the consequences that follow when old secrets return to the surface.
Paradise has its own shadows.
A mystery of intrigue and suspicion set against an island landscape, where appearances offer no guarantee of the truth.
Notes from the writing desk, reflections on storytelling, and the latest from Carline Bouilhet's literary world.
Writing a psychological thriller is not just about putting words on paper. It is about developing multi-faceted and complex characters, neither villains nor heroes, just as they are in real life.
It is about weaving a plot where every thread you pull is a new twist and a new turn in a fast-paced tale of intrigue and mystery.
Life is a series of events which shapes who we are. As a writer Carline selects moments in her journey and transforms them to fit a new narrative.
Each character a composite of the many people who have crossed her path. Each place a familiar background to chapters in her life's ventures.
Somewhere on the Central Coast of New South Wales, on a land suspended between bush and sea, twelve women, most on the other side of sixty, live at the end of a dead-end street.
When the quietude of The Close is shattered in the early hours of an autumn morning by heart-wrenching screams, will the sisterhood close ranks to protect one of their own?
From remote coves and glittering cities to tropical islands, shifting horizons and a quiet street where nothing is quite as peaceful as it seems, Carline Bouilhet's novels move through distinctive places while returning to the same compelling questions.
Sisterhood • Secrets • Suspense
Isolation • Mystery • Danger
Connections • Motives • Intrigue
Past • Consequences • Hidden Truths
Paradise • Intrigue • Deception
Across five novels, real-life observation meets psychological suspense. Distinctive settings shape the atmosphere, relationships create pressure, and ordinary lives reveal unexpected depths.
