Harlan Coben’s 'Run Away' Will Reunite James Nesbitt & Minnie Driver

Netflix has been actively building on the success of its Harlan Coben franchise ever since the streaming service first saw how well adaptations of the author's novels did on the platform back in 2018. It helped that the first adaptations, which were not Netflix-produced, reset the New Jersey/New York set mysteries in various European countries (and languages; out of the current nine on Netflix, two are in Polish, one in French, and one in Spanish). When Netflix bought up the rights to Coben's works, it also reset them across the pond, starting with 2020's The Stranger, and accidentally turned the run of limited series into a New Year's Day tradition in the U.K.

After Fool Me Once dominated the U.K. ratings on New Year's 2024, Netflix scooped up two more: Missing You, which debuted on New Year's Day 2025, and Run Away, which has just entered production. Like all of Netflix's Coben series, the action is reset to the U.K. again, and the cast features British, Irish, and American stars. The newest adaptation will bring back James Nesbitt (Bloodlands) to the Coben franchise; he last appeared in Stay Close, which debuted on Netflix on New Year's Eve 2021. Like others who have appeared in multiple Coben works, he plays a new role each time; in this one, he'll star as Simon Greene, a husband and father desperately trying to put his life back together.

Nesbitt will co-star alongside Minnie Driver (The Serpent Queen), who plays his wife, Ingrid. Though this is Driver's first turn in a Coben adaptation, she and Nesbitt have worked together before, most notably in the 2010 BBC underwater thriller The Deep.