Netflix's new Harlan Coben drama has 'bonkers' twist as author revealed why drama is set in US for first time

For a new Netflix Harlan Coben drama to have a twist that is shocking fans at this point – it has to be something pretty bonkers.

Thankfully for fans of the American writer’s Netflix adaptations his brand new drama lives up to this and has a pretty crazy twist even for fans of Coben’s work.

Starring Sam Worthington, breakout Severance star Britt Lower, Milo Ventimiglia, Logan Browning, and Aaron Ashmore, the series focuses on Worthington as David, a man accused of having murdered his three-year-old son.

Called I Will Find You, the Netflix TV series focuses on him finding new evidence that his son is actually alive and breaking out of prison to try and find him.

In an odd first this is actually the first of Netflix’s incredibly successful Harlan Coben series’ to be set in the US, despite all of Coben’s books being set there.

I Will Find You has a bonkers plot twist even for a Harlan Coben series

Rachel and David work together to try find David's son Matthew (Netflix)

Lower plays David’s former sister-in-law Rachel, a journalist who brings David the proof his son might be alive.

Rachel’s ex-boyfriend Hayden, played by Milo Ventimiglia helps the pair search for David’s son Matthew.

Warning: Spoilers for I Will Find You

Milo Ventimiglia's Hayden plays a huge role (Netflix)

Matthew had been born through a fertility clinic, something David was unaware of, with Cheryl using her sister Rachel’s name throughout to keep things a secret. Hayden, whose mother runs the clinic, thought this was really Rachel and so secretly provided his own genetic material. As such, he thought Matthew was his son, so framed David by killing a different child and manipulated the DNA so people thought it was him.

Hayden then stole Matthew, raising him as his son ‘Theo’. The tricky extra twist however came when it was discovered that Matthew wasn’t even Hayden’s kid, and was actually David’s son. David is exonerated, and everyone who wasn’t following the show with 100% is probably quite confused.

Why is I Will Find You set in the US?

Previous series such as Missing You and Fool Me Once changed up the setting from the books, moving them from the US to the UK for the shows.

For I Will Find You however Harlan Coben decided that the Boston setting of the novel was an essential part of the show that could not be changed, largely due to his own connection to the city.

Despite having been born and brought up in New Jersey, Coben spent a lot of time in Boston growing up.

He told the Boston Globe: “Boston, that area, has been a big part of my life. I just thought it’d be a cool place for [Davod] to come from, this family and that neighborhood feel, the row house sort of thing. I wanted that place to set this story.”

Coben said that his father, a ‘Revere Beach boy’, was close on his mind when writing the novel, saying: “The last member of my family who had been in Revere had died maybe six months to a year before I started the book. I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

“So all of my connections to Revere and that childhood part were gone. Maybe this was part of my way of capturing those people again.”

I Will Find You is available to stream on Netflix now.