Harlan Coben says tragedy of parents’ deaths helped him write better American thriller writer Harlan Coben says he has learned that “tragedy is a very cruel but effective teacher”, after his parents’ deaths.
His other TV 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 – all on Netflix.
Coben has more than 80 million books in print worldwide, including Win, The Boy From The Woods, Run Away, and Tell No One, and has a deal with Netflix to be a producer on the series the streaming giant makes.
You can learn to go on without that arm, you’re going to learn to do things with the other arm and still have a happy, productive life.
My dad died, my mum died, and a lot of people in my life died.
