And you always know from the start that Harlan has got a brilliant ending,” says Nicola Shindler, while the author promises his show will be “stirring the heart.”

Harlan Coben’s newest series Missing You, based on his book of the same name, has just premiered on Netflix, and fans have been wondering why the series has that title. The story follows a detective who comes across her ex-fiance on a dating app.

Though Harlan Coben's book is set in New York City, the Netflix adaptation shifts the story to England, choosing authentic filming locations.

When the novel came out, the two creators actually "did a couple of events together," the best-seller author shared during an appearance in London ahead of the show's Jan. 1 launch.

A new Harlan Coben Netflix show has been added to the streaming service, but where does it rank compared to the other adaptations of the author's work?

The series follows Kat Donovan (Slow Horses‘ Rosalind Eleazar), a detective whose life is upended when her former fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters), who disappeared from her life more than a decade ago, suddenly shows up on a dating app just as her father’s convicted murderer is about to die of natural causes.

Prolific writer Harlan Coben's novels have been adapted to television in series like Prime Video's "Harlan Coben's Shelter," Netflix's "The Stranger" and most recently, the streamer's megahit "Fool Me Once.

Indeed, following the success of “Stay Close” and “Fool Me Once,” the streaming giant is once again ringing in the New Year with the help of potboiler extraordinaire Harlan Coben. This time around, it’s his 2014 novel “Missing You” getting the small screen treatment across five episodes precision tooled to binge along with your party leftovers.

Following the popularity of 2024's Fool Me Once, Netflix's newest Harlan Coben adaptation, Missing You, is full of exciting twists and mysteries.