Harlan Coben

Writer and producer · Born January 4, 1962 (64) · Newark, New Jersey, USA

Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962) is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Twelve of his novels have been adapted for film and television. Coben has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award, and an Anthony Award—the first author to receive all three. His books have been translated into 46 languages and sold over 90 million copies. Coben was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and was raised in Livingston, where he graduated from Livingston High School, with his childhood friend, future governor Chris Christie. His brother is the noted businessman Lawrence S. Coben. He studied political science at Amherst College, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, along with Dan Brown. Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to write. After graduating in 1984, Coben worked in the travel industry, in a company owned by his grandfather. It was during that time when he wrote his first book, romantic suspense thriller Play Dead, which was accepted for publication when he was 26 and released in 1990. It was followed by Miracle Cure in 1991. He then began writing a series of thrillers featuring a former basketball player turned sports agent, Myron Bolitar, who often finds himself investigating murders involving his clients. Tell No One, his first stand-alone thriller since the creation of the Myron Bolitar series in 1995, was published in 2001. A French-language film adaptation based on the book was released in 2006. Coben followed Tell No One with nine more stand-alone novels. His novel Hold Tight, published on April 15, 2008, was his first book to debut at number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2003, Coben published a short story about his father, who had died of a heart attack at the age of 59 in 1988. Entitled "The Key to My Father," the story was published in The New York Times on Father's Day, June 15, 2003. Besides The New York Times, his essays and columns have appeared in Parade magazine and Bloomberg Views. Coben lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with his wife Anne Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician, and their four children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harlan Coben, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

What are Harlan Coben's films like?

Across their 13 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight

Morality

23%

Bonds

23%

Self

22%

Survival

18%

Ideas

10%

Society

4%

Family bonds6 Justice4 Deception4 Truth5 Grief4 Memory2 Identity2 Trauma2

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense

13

Melancholic

10

Dread

5

Contemplative

2

Cold

1

Other

1

How their films linger

Thought-provoking10 Unsettling9 Bittersweet4 Haunting2

How their films end · 10 with a twist

Bittersweet8
Ambiguous5

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Harlan Coben's films?

As of October 24, 2026, all 16 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (12).

Also on these channels

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Subscription and free streaming for Harlan Coben's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

23 credits, 16 with a MovieCove page; 6 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

I Will Find You(2026)
Show 8 episodes · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
Harlan Coben's Final Twist(2026)
Show 6 episodes · Creator · Producer · Writer · as Self - Host
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all shows
Run Away(2026)
Show 8 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all shows
All We Ever Wanted (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Show 1 episode · Producer
Lazarus(2025)
Show 6 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Original Story · Writer
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all shows
Caught(2025)
Show 6 episodes · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all shows
Just One Look(2025)
Show 6 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all shows
Missing You(2025)
Show 5 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all shows
Fool Me Once (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)
Show 8 episodes · Executive Producer · Novel
Harlan Coben's Shelter(2023)
Show 8 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel · Teleplay · Writer
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all shows
Hold Tight(2022)
Show 6 episodes · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 15th percentile of all shows
Stay Close(2021)
Show 8 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all shows
Gone for Good(2021)
Show 5 episodes · Novel · Producer
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all shows
The Innocent(2021)
Show 8 episodes · Novel
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
The Woods(2020)
Show 6 episodes · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all shows
The Stranger(2020)
Show 8 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Safe(2018)
Show 8 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows
Just One Look (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Show 6 episodes · Executive Producer · Novel · as le chirurgien du bloc opératoire
The Five (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Show 10 episodes · Creator · Executive Producer · Novel
No Second Chance (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Show 6 episodes · Executive Producer · Novel
Tell No One(2006)
Novel · as Stranger at the station (uncredited)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Myron Bolitar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Show 1 episode · Book
Six Years (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Novel

Career shape

A full career of 23 titles, 21 of them dated from 2006 to 2026.

Biggest box office

Tell No One (2006)

$33M worldwide

Highest rated

Tell No One (2006)

Midcredits 94^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Acting2 of 23Writing21 of 23 · 36^thProducing17 of 23 · 33^rdOther crew10 of 23 · 36^th

23 titles, 17 with more than one role — writing and producing overlap on 16 of them.

By decade

2000s1 · 1 acting · 1 crew2010s4 · 1 acting · 4 crew2020s16 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Is Harlan Coben's work okay for kids?

Across up to 12 MovieCove titles with content scores, violence & gore, profanity and frightening / intense run heavier than most films.

Their medianMedian of all filmsMiddle 80% of their titles

Violence & Gore7 titles55–77 · median 64 · intenseheavier than most films

Sex & Nudity12 titles15–57 · median 38 · moderatenear the median of all films

Profanity10 titles34–70 · median 55 · moderateheavier than most films

Alcohol & Drugs9 titles31–67 · median 43 · moderatenear the median of all films

Frightening / Intense10 titles42–70 · median 57 · moderateheavier than most films

Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.