Netflix has released the first look images for Run Away, its latest limited series adapted from a Harlan Coben novel.
Run Away stars James Nesbitt, Ruth Jones, Minnie Driver and Alfred Enoch and follows 2025’s hugely successful limited thriller series Missing You. The series arrives on Netflix on 1st January 2026.
The eight-part Run Away is again produced by Quay Street Productions (Part of ITV Studios), which also produced Netflix’s Missing You and Fool Me Once, as well as Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Coben’s Lazarus. Coben himself will serve as executive producer through his company, Final Twist Productions. Danny Brocklehurst is the lead writer and executive producer, and Quay Street Productions’ Nicola Shindler and Richard Fee are also executive producers.
In the show, Nesbitt plays Simon, who had the perfect life: loving wife and kids, great job, beautiful home. But then his eldest daughter Paige ran away and everything fell apart. When he finds her, vulnerable and strung out on drugs in a city park, he finally has the chance to bring his little girl home. But it turns out 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, revealing deep secrets that could tear his family apart forever.
In keeping with previous Harlan Coben adaptations, Run Away will relocate the story from the US to the UK. Filming took place in and around Manchester and the North West of England.
RUN AWAY is one of 13 titles from bestselling author Harlan Coben produced for Netflix. Coben continues his work with local screenwriters from around the world to bring his novels to life on screen, so far across four languages.
Harlan Coben titles currently available to stream on Netflix include: Missing You, Fool Me Once, Gone For Good, The Stranger, Stay Close, The Innocent, Hold Tight, The Woods, Safe.
Further Coben titles announced include Run Away, Caught, Just One Look, I Will Find You.
Run Away follows 2025’s hugely successful limited thriller series Missing You, by Quay Street Productions, which starred Rosalind Eleazar, Richard Armitage, Steve Pemberton, Jessica Plummer and Ashley Walters, and 2024’s Fool Me Once, which starred Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar, Richard Armitage and Joanna Lumley, and joined Netflix’s chart of its Top 10 most popular English-language shows of all time, with over 94 million views since launch in January 2024.
