I Will Find You (Century) has a deliciously implausible premise – delicious because readers know we can trust Coben to find a nail-bitingly exciting way out of the set-up he outlines. Harlan Coben’s latest is less stress-inducing but equally compelling. It’s all horribly claustrophobic, in the best possible way, as Gil starts to dig into Matthew’s past and present while his own behaviour becomes more unstable. He watches for “those small moments, carefully hidden for the most part, when Matthew’s true self peeked out” he watches him talk to his daughter, waiting for Matthew to hit her, but all he does is pour a glass of water “as if he was just a thirsty teen, an orphaned kid, and not at all what even now Gil saw in him: a terrible, violent monster, waiting patiently for the moment to strike”. While the women of his family appear to forgive the past and take Matthew at face value, Gil is convinced there is something evil in the teenager: that he is taunting his uncle – and that something dreadful lies ahead. His sister and her husband have since died in a car crash, and Matthew, now 17, has come to live with Gil, Molly and their daughters.

He has been estranged from his sister for years, having found her son, Matthew, looking on while his daughter struggled to surface in a swimming pool. Gil is a creative writing teacher at a university in rural Vermont, happily married with two daughters. Nicola Shindler and Jessica Taylor serve as producers with Quay Street Productions serving as the production company.I can’t say that I enjoyed Nathan Oates’s A Flaw in the Design (Serpent’s Tail), but I certainly read it at speed in a state of high stress and anxiety, as the tension built inexorably and I began to feel just as haunted (hunted?) as the author’s protagonist. I can’t wait to see how this dream cast brings these characters to life.”Īlso working on the project includes Danny Brocklehurst ( Brassic, Come Home) as the lead writer, assisted by Charlotte Coben, Yemi Oyefuwa, Nina Metivier, and Tom Farrelly.ĭirecting on the series will be done by David Moore ( Outlander) and Nimer Rashed. ‘Fool Me Once’ will be our fourth Netflix series together, and man, it never gets old! ‘Fool Me Once’ is a pulse-pounder - a shocking story of how secrets and deceit have the power to bring people together while simultaneously tearing them apart. “I’m thrilled and honoured to once again be collaborating with my uber-talented partners Danny, Nicola and Richard. Harlan Coben said in the announcement of Fool Me Once: Other confirmed upcoming Coben projects for Netflix include Myron Bolitar, Six Years, and Run Away.

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