‘Gone for Good’ review: Fairly engrossing mini-series from the Harlan Coben staple of thrillers

The show features Coben’s favourite themes of ordinary people getting caught in extraordinary circumstances and the past never staying buried

This has been a packed year for novelist Harlan Coben, who signed a multi-million-dollar deal with Netflix to adapt 14 of his novels. After The Innocent, earlier this year, which was set in Spain, comes Gone for Good based on Coben’s 2002 novel of the same name moving the action this time from New York to Nice. And then there is the British production of Coben’s Stay Close (2012) starring Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage coming soon to the streaming platform. . Gone for Good features Coben’s favourite themes of ordinary people getting caught in extraordinary circumstances and the past never staying buried. The book has Coben staples of extreme violence, a horrifying antagonist and so many twists and turns that it would make a self-respecting jalebi blush. The show follows the main plot while excising some of the more outlandish twists of the novel.