SPOILER ALERT: This story includes key plots and details about “I Will Find You,” now streaming on Netflix.

Harlan Coben’s latest Netflix murder mystery series, “I Will Find You,” seems to have caught almost everyone’s attention. Just look at the numbers.

As VarietyJennifer Maas reported Tuesday that “I Will Find You” had the second-highest week of viewers for an English-language scripted series launched in 2026, so far. That milestone came after it captured 24 million views (making it Netflix’s biggest TV show launch of the year) in the first week after its June 18 debut.

I’m on a Zoom with star Britt Lower when I tell her that not only did I binge watch the series over a weekend, but I was struggling to sleep late into the night so I could keep watching.

“That’s the fun thing about this show. It’s summer and it’s like when you’re a kid and you fight sleep,” Lower says. “When else can you have that experience that I’m not tired, I’m going to stay up and I’m going to keep snacking? I’m so excited for everyone. I keep getting texts saying people can’t sleep, and I’m like, ‘Well, there’s no school for the summer.'”

Lower stars in the eight-episode series, an adaptation of Coben’s novel of the same name, as Rachel, a Boston Globe journalist who sets out to prove that her former brother-in-law David (Sam Worthington) was wrongly convicted and sent to prison for the gruesome murder of her young son Matthew. What unfolds is a prison break, run-ins with Boston mobsters, and entanglements with doctors and a rich and seemingly sinister family. There’s also the father-daughter FBI team (Chi McBride and Logan Browning) who are hunting for the fugitive David.

The whodunit leads to one of Coben’s signature twist endings. In this case, it is revealed that Rachel’s ex-boyfriend, a scion of a wealthy family played by Milo Ventimiglia, kidnapped Matthew because he believes he is the child’s father.

“I read the book before I read the scripts,” Lower says. “I think we only had three or four scripts to shoot, and then we do block shooting, so you do a couple at a time, and then when the end comes, you have all the scripts.”

It’s Rachel who kicks off the story when she visits David in prison after noticing a boy who looks eerily similar to Matthew in the background of a photo a friend had posted on Facebook.

“He [Hayden] “The twist is really related to why Rachel has this instinct in the first place and everything makes more sense,” Lower says. “Oh, she had that Spidey sense, and she was connected to this person who was supposed to be like her best friend.”

Hayden not only violently kills a detective who accuses him of being involved in Matthew’s disappearance, but he also shoots his own mother (Madeleine Stowe) to death. “It’s a really good cast because Milo is the complete opposite,” Lower says. “He is the most charming and gentle human being.”

But another final twist to consider is when Rachel and David are seen holding hands, leading many viewers, including me, to wonder if a romance had developed between the two.

“I loved how calm that last moment was,” Lower says. “I think it feels very earned based on everything we’ve been through together, and there’s a sense that the end of the story is open-ended.”

She continues: “They have this tacit understanding of what the other person has been through, and that connection feels stronger than any kind of romance. They have a shared loneliness and a belief in their family system and a drive to save this child. There’s really no room for much romance when you think about everything that’s going on. But that kind of gentle gesture of support with the handhold, I thought felt appropriate.”