Harlan Coben says ‘quite a bit of tragedy’ in his 20s made him a better writer Bestselling author and Netflix producer said extensive early experience of grief was ‘very cruel but effective teacher’.
His other Netflix projects include Stay Close, about a husband who goes missing, with James Nesbitt and Cush Jumbo; blackmail story The Stranger, with Richard Armitage and Siobhan Finneran; and Safe, starring Michael C Hall and Amanda Abbington, about a surgeon whose daughter goes missing.
American thriller writer Harlan Coben said experiencing “quite a bit of tragedy” in his 20s made him a better writer.
The bestselling author, who wrote the Myron Bolitar thriller series and novels turned Netflix shows such as Fool Me Once and Missing You, said he was in his 20s when his father died of a heart attack at the age of 59 in 1988.
Coben has more than 80 million books in print worldwide – including Win, The Boy from the Woods, Run Away, and Tell No One – and is a producer on Netflix adaptations of his work.
