Netflix thriller I Will Find You has made history by breaking into the platform’s Top 10 most popular English-language series of all time.
The latest adaptation of Harlan Coben’s bestselling novel, which premiered on June 18, has now amassed more than 101 million views, cementing the American author as one of the streaming giant’s most reliable hitmakers.
The all-time Netflix record is still held by the first season of Wednesday, with 252 million views.
If you’re a fan of Coben’s twist-filled mysteries, there’s plenty more where that came from. The author has sold more than 75 million books worldwide, earning a reputation for page-turners packed with disappearances, family secrets, false identities and jaw-dropping final twists.
Those ingredients have translated remarkably well to television and film, turning his body of work into one of the world’s most successful screen franchises, even as many other bestselling authors have struggled to make the leap from page to screen.
Much of that success stems from Netflix’s landmark 2018 deal to adapt 14 of Coben’s novels into series and films. Since then, viewers around the world have binged everything from The Stranger and Stay Close to Fool Me Once, Missing You and now I Will Find You.
Not every screen adaptation has been produced by Netflix, nor is every project based on one of Coben’s novels. Alongside adaptations of his books, he has also created original series directly for broadcasters and streamers, including The Five, Safe and Lazarus. His stories have also been adapted by filmmakers and television producers in France, Spain, Poland, Argentina and beyond.
Here’s every Harlan Coben story adapted for film and television.
Tell No One
This French-language film stars Francois Cluzet as a doctor whose world is turned upside down when he receives evidence suggesting his wife, believed murdered eight years earlier, may still be alive. Directed by Guillaume Canet, it won four Cesar Awards and helped introduce Coben’s stories to international audiences.
No Second Chance
Platform: TF1 / Netflix in some territories
The first television adaptation of one of Coben’s novels, this six-part French thriller follows a doctor who wakes from a coma after being shot in the back to discover that her husband has been murdered and her baby daughter kidnapped. With the police treating her as a suspect, she takes matters into her own hands, launching a desperate search for her daughter and the truth behind the attack.
The Five
Book: Original story (not based on a novel)
Created directly for television, The Five was written by Coben and follows four friends whose lives are upended when DNA evidence suggests a boy who disappeared two decades earlier – the younger brother of one of the group – may still be alive. The series helped prove that Coben’s signature blend of mystery, suspense and emotional drama could work just as well on screen as it did on the page.
Just One Look
Set in Warsaw, Poland, Just One Look follows Greta, whose life is upended when a disturbing photo mysteriously surfaces that may be connected to the disappearance of her husband, Jacek. As Greta digs into what happened, she confronts buried truths, past traumas and her own hazy memory to save her husband.
Book: Original story (not based on a novel)
Another original television creation, Safe, stars Michael C Hall as a widowed surgeon whose teenage daughter vanishes. The mystery exposes dark secrets lurking beneath the surface of an affluent gated community.
The Stranger
Often considered one of Coben’s strongest adaptations, The Stranger begins when a mysterious woman reveals a secret that destroys a seemingly perfect marriage. What follows is a labyrinthine conspiracy involving murder, blackmail and multiple disappearances.
The Woods
The story, relocated to Warsaw, follows a prosecutor who, while investigating a murder, discovers evidence that may be linked to the disappearance of his sister 25 years earlier.
The Innocent
A man whose life was shattered by an accidental killing finally appears to have rebuilt everything, until a mysterious phone call threatens to expose long-buried truths.
Gone for Good
A French-language thriller centred on a man haunted by the deaths of both his brother and girlfriend. When another disappearance occurs years later, old wounds are reopened and long-hidden secrets emerge.
Stay Close
One of the most popular English-language adaptations, Stay Close follows three strangers whose lives become intertwined through a decades-old cold case. Richard Armitage, a regular presence in the Coben universe, stars.
Hold Tight
This Polish adaptation explores parental fears in the digital age when a teenager disappears after the death of a friend. The investigation reveals just how little parents know about their children’s online lives.
Shelter
One of the few recent adaptations not produced by Netflix, Shelter is based on the first novel in Coben’s young-adult Mickey Bolitar series. A teenager investigates the disappearance of a classmate while uncovering dark family secrets.
Fool Me Once
Perhaps the biggest Coben adaptation to date, Fool Me Once became one of Netflix’s most-watched shows after its release. Michelle Keegan stars as a woman who believes she sees her murdered husband alive on a nanny cam.
Missing You
A detective discovers her former fiance on a dating app more than a decade after he vanished without explanation. The search for answers draws her into a much larger conspiracy.
Caught
An investigative journalist probing the disappearance of a teenage girl finds herself caught in a case that challenges everything she believes.
Lazarus
Book: Original story (not based on a novel)
Coben co-created this psychological thriller with Danny Brocklehurst. Sam Claflin stars as a forensic psychiatrist who returns home after his father’s suspicious death and is drawn into a mystery involving long-buried secrets, unsolved murders and visions of people he knows to be dead.
Run Away
A father searches for his missing daughter after spotting her living rough and seemingly trapped in a dangerous cult-like world. Like many of Coben’s stories, what begins as a family drama soon expands into a sprawling mystery.
I Will Find You
The latest adaptation stars Sam Worthington as a man serving a life sentence for murdering his son. When evidence emerges suggesting the child may still be alive, he escapes prison in search of the truth. It marks Coben’s 13th collaboration with Netflix.
