Harlan Coben’s Thriller For Netflix Gets First-Look Images

Here are a bunch of first-look images at Netflix‘s up-to-date Harlan Coben drama series.

Run Away stars James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver and Alfred Enoch, and will once again transport a Coben novel from the U.S. to the UK, with the story being filmed in and around Manchester. It launches on January 1, 2026.

The eight-part series follows Simon (Nesbitt), whose perfect life with a loving wife and kids fell apart his eldest daughter Paige ran away. He finds her, vulnerable and strung out on drugs in a city park, but she’s not alone, and an argument escalates into shocking violence. In the aftermath, Simon loses his daughter all over again, and his search to find her will take him into a dangerous underworld.

Frequent Coben collaborator ITV Studios-owned Quay Street Productions is making the show. Coben will serve as executive producer through his company, Final Twist Productions. Fool Me Once and Brassic writer Danny Brocklehurst is the lead writer and executive producer. Quay Street, its founder Nicola Shindler and Richard Fee are the other executive producers. Tom Farrelly, Amanda Duke and Charlotte Coben are episodic writers. Series producer is Guy Hescott, Will McDonagh is producer, Charlotte Coben is associate producer, Nimer Rashed and Isher Shaota are the lead directors and Orla Maxwell led on casting.

Also starring are Lucian Msamati, Jon Pointing, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Annette Badland, Maeve Courtier-Lilley, Ellie de Lange, Adrian Greensmith, Ellie Henry, Ingrid Oliver, Finty Williams, Joe McGann and Amy Gledhill.

The series follows on from Coben’s up-to-date thriller Netflix, Missing You, which is immediately a best-ten all-time English-language show for the streaming with over 94 million views since launch in January 2024. Both are among the 13 titles bestselling author Coben has made for Netflix. Others include Fool Me Once, Gone For Good, The Stranger and Stay Close. Following Run Away will be Caught, Just One Look and I Will Find You.