Netflix Signs On To Make More Harlan Coben Thrillers

Netflix is going back to the bookshelf for more Harlan Coben novels to adapt. The streaming service has been doing adaptations of the Coben novels since 2016, with a commitment to produce multiple adaptations since 2018. Though the author's novels are set in America, and the author himself is from New Jersey, the Netflix adaptations, produced by British studios, reimagine them as London-based (when they're not reset in European countries). Each seems more wildly popular than the last, with Fool Me Once, the eighth one, hitting the top of the streaming charts in January 2024.

For its ninth and tenth adaptations, Netflix will adapt 2014's Missing You and 2019's Run Away. Nicola Shindler's Quay Street Productions, the ITV Studios-backed production outfit that produced Fool Me Once, will be the main producer for both the new series, with Coben serving as executive producer through his company Final Twist Productions. Here's the synopsis:

Missing You tells the story of detective Kat Donovan stumbling across her estranged fiancé on a dating app, forcing her to delve back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder.