'I don’t normally like other people’s ideas': Harlan Coben on collaborating with Reese Witherspoon

Novelist and screenwriter Harlan Coben also talks about his new novel, and being hands-on with the multiple Netflix adaptations of his work

Harlan Coben recently published his latest thriller, Nobody's Fool. Picture : Pip Cowley/PA 

Bestselling thriller-writer and Netflix supremo Harlan Coben never wanted to collaborate with anyone else on a book – until Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon changed his mind.

The novelist, whose hit novels include The Boy From The Woods, Run Away, and Fool Me Once, as well as the Myron Bolitar series, had previously rejected approaches from other budding authors to join forces to write thrillers, he reveals, speaking from New York.