Harlan Coben’s latest Netflix thriller, ‘I Will Find You’, dropped on Thursday, 18 June 2026, with Sam Worthington playing a father serving life for a murder he says he did not commit.
The eight-episode series is adapted from Coben’s 2023 novel of the same name by showrunner Robert Hull, as reported by Variety.
It is the first Coben Netflix show set in America, after a run of British hits like Fool Me Once and Missing You that turned the author into a streaming machine.
What I Will Find You is about
Worthington plays David Burroughs, a man five years into a life sentence for killing his young son.
Then a photograph lands in his hands suggesting the boy is alive, and David breaks out of prison to chase the truth through a world of lies. It is classic Coben, basically.
The cast is stacked. Britt Lower, fresh off Severance, plays Rachel Mills, David’s ex-sister-in-law and a disgraced reporter who smells the story of her life. Milo Ventimiglia turns up as Hayden, Rachel’s ex and confidant from a powerful Boston family, which tells you the secrets here run deep.
There is range here beyond the leads too, with the supporting players filling out a Boston that feels equal parts cosy and rotten.
Coben loves an ordinary suburban surface with something ugly underneath, and the trailer leans hard into that contrast, all manicured lawns and very bad intentions.
Why ‘I Will Find You’ is the binge to beat this week
Director Louis Leterrier is promising the kind of paranoia that follows you off the couch. “You won’t be able to look at your house or family the same way again,” he said.
Worthington, for his part, framed the emotional core simply:
“David’s journey is one of healing and hope.”
Leterrier knows how to keep a thriller moving without losing the heart of it, and pairing him with Coben’s plotting is the whole pitch.
The author has become Netflix’s most reliable hit factory, and this one carries the extra novelty of being his first American-set series for the platform.
Early word is kind to Worthington, with critics calling him perfectly cast as a dad running on grief and adrenaline.
The all-at-once drop means you can write off your Thursday night and your Friday, which during a South African winter is not the worst way to spend a cold evening indoors.
All eight episodes are on Netflix now, so the only real question is whether you pace yourself or surrender to the cliffhangers.
If it follows the pattern of Coben’s past adaptations, expect it to sit near the top of the South African Netflix chart well into next week.
