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How Harlan Coben became the king of potboiler TV

How Harlan Coben became the king of potboiler TV

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The prolific crime author’s latest Netflix thriller I Will Find You has become one of the streamer’s most-watched shows of all time – but what’s his secret? Netflix’s all-time top 10 English language series chart is starting to look like a stale old thing. It is topped by Wednesday, which is four years old, and include

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The prolific crime author’s latest Netflix thriller I Will Find You has become one of the streamer’s most-watched shows of all time – but what’s his secret? Netflix’s all-time top 10 English language series chart is starting to look like a stale old thing.

It is topped by Wednesday, which is four years old, and includes dusty old hits including Stranger Things season four (four years old), Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (four years old), The Queen’s Gambit (six years old), and Bridgerton season one (six years old).

But wait. Just before you write off Netflix as a platform half a decade past its peak, a plucky new entry has entered the all-time top 10 to liven things up.

That show is I Will Find You, the latest belched out from the glistening ovipositor of Harlan Coben.

If you’re a fan of Coben’s work – and we’ll get into that in due course – then I Will Find You will be instantly recognisable, since it bears many of the author’s hallmarks. Continue reading...

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