Netlfix Has More For Harlan Coben Fans Next After I Will Find You

After the success of Stay Close, Fool Me Once, Missing You and Run Away, I Will Find You has become the latest Harlan Coben adaptation to become a hit for Netflix.

The new series – which marks the first collaboration between Harlan Coben and Netflix to be set in the US – follows a man serving a prison sentence for the murder of his young son, whose world is upside down when he discovers his son may actually still be alive.

While critics were not exactly enthralled by the eight-part series, that clearly hasn’t stopped people tuning in, and it’s become the latest adaptation of the crime novelist’s work to top Netflix’s most-watched chart.

If you have already binged I Will Find You in full, the good news is that there are plenty of new adaptations in the pipeline for you to enjoy…

Harlan Coben is one of the most prolific crime writers of the 21st century, with 35 novels to his name, which have been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 90 million copies worldwide.

As a result, there’s plenty more material for your favourite streamer to adapt in the future.

Next year, his 2007 novel The Woods will be the latest to be given the Netflix drama treatment. The story was actually already adapted for a Polish-language series in 2020, but it’s now getting a UK-based version.

The Woods will see Death On The Nile star Tom Bateman taking the lead as Paul, a barrister and devoted single father still grieving the loss of his sister, who disappeared 20 years earlier.

Echoing a recurring trope in Coben’s work, the story will see Paul discovering new evidence to suggest his sister is still alive, despite having previously been led to believe she’d been murdered after disappearing into the woods.

From there, naturally, he soon finds himself embroiled in a mysterious saga with plenty of twists, as he tries to find out what happened to his sister – and where she’s been all this time.

Entering production in April 2026, the eight-part limited series will see Tom sharing the screen with the likes of Doctor Who’s Mandeep Dhillon and James Buckley, best known for his work in The Inbetweeners.

The Woods will also see Fool Me Once’s breakout star Michelle Keegan returning to the world of Harlan Coben, as she takes on the role of Paul’s ex, who also happens to be an investigator.

Meanwhile, Coben’s adaptations usually have a surprise or two in the cast, and The Woods is clearly no different.

Comedian Tom Allen playing the wonderfully-named Flynn Hickory, a brand new character created especially for the TV series.

The Woods isn’t the only upcoming project on Netflix for fans of the crime author, though.

Netflix is also adapting Myron Bolitar, which will see Coben teaming up with Emmy Award-winning David E. Kelley, the man behind Big Little Lies, Ally McBeal and Boston Legal.

The Myron Bolitar novels are the most popular in Coben’s oeuvre, and follow a sports agent who uses his charm and smarts to navigate numerous high-stakes deals, including blackmail, murder and dark family secrets.

Coben has previously told Deadline that “Myron Bolitar is dear to my heart,” calling the 11-book series his “most prized possession” and “one of the properties I’ve probably been a little bit more precious about”.

Also currently in early development is All We Ever Wanted. While this is a TV version of Emily Giffin’s hit novel, rather than a direct Coben adaptation, he is still heavily involved in the project as a producer.

For All We Ever Wanted, Coben is teaming up with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company, as well as Jessica Goldberg, the writer of the TV show The Path, who has been brought on to bring the book to the screen.

The series logline describes the upcoming project as “a soapy and scandalous drama that uncovers the secrets and class struggles of a wealthy suburb, where a torrid love affair between a ‘have’ mum and ‘have-not’ single dad threatens to expose the sins and lies of all of those around them”.

As of 2026, there are 13 Harlan Coben shows streaming on Netflix. So, if you’ve only checked out one or two of the gripping shows in his repertoire, there are plenty more to get your teeth into.

The most recent, Run Away, starred James Nesbitt, Minnie Driver and Ruth Jones, and followed a frantic search for a missing daughter.

On Netflix, you can also press play on Stay Close (with James Nesbitt and Cush Jumbo, which sees a detective haunted by an old cold case), Safe (with Michael C Hall as a pediatric surgeon struggling to connect with his daughters after the death of his wife) and Missing You (in which Richard Armitage plays a detective investigating a presumed-dead man who turns up on a dating app.

Coben’s most successful adaptation is Fool Me Once, which became one of the platform’s most-watched series of 2024, with more than 107 million views.

The show saw Michelle Keegan playing a former military pilot struggling in the aftermath of the murder of her husband, played by Coben regular Richard Armitage.

Other Netflix adaptations of Coben’s work include The Stranger, the Spanish-language thriller The Innocent, the Polish adaptation of The Woods, and the Argentine series Caught.

Yes. While Harlan Coben’s shows are traditionally Netflix affairs, there have been some that are streaming elsewhere.

On Amazon Prime, you can watch 2023’s Shelter, about the disappearance of a student, and Lazarus, in which Sam Claflin plays a forensic scientist investigating the death of his late father, played by Bill Nighy.

Although not based on any of his books, Coben also fronts a true-crime documentary for ITV, in which he unpacks complicated real-world cases that are worthy of one of his own stories.