Michelle Keegan Teams Up with Harlan Coben Again!

has reunited with Harlan Coben for a second thriller - after Fool Me Once became a huge hit for the streaming service.

The actress, 38, starred opposite , Richard Armitage and Adeel Akhtar in Fool Me Once, which debuted in 2022.

The former  star is now set for a second project based on one of the American author's books.

Michelle joins The Love Hypothesis' Tom Bateman in The Woods, adapted from Coben's 2020 novel.

The cast also includes The Inbetweeners star  and comedian Tom Allen, as well as After Life's Mandeep Dhillon and Small Prophets' Pearce Quigley.

Also starring are the likes of Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rade Sherbedgia, Christopher Harper, Dean Fagan, Charlotte Beaumont and Roger Barclay, among others. 

A synopsis teases: 'Twenty years ago, Paul 'Cope' Copeland's sister Camille vanished from a summer camp in the woods, a loss that tore his family apart.

'Now a top barrister and devoted single father to ten-year-old daughter Cami, Cope appears to have rebuilt his life. But when the body of a man turns up - twenty years after he was supposedly murdered alongside Camille - Cope becomes convinced his sister may have made it out of the woods alive too.

'Determined to uncover the truth, Cope reunites with his first love, Lucy Silverfield (Keegan), and together they begin a search for answers, unearthing years of lies, cover-ups, and family secrets that threaten to destroy everything he has built.'

Harlan Coben said in a statement: 'The Woods is a haunting and very personal story. It has everything you expect from us - twisty, turning, gasp-inducing - but at the core is a story of old love and yearning.

'Working with a cast led by Tom Bateman, Michelle Keegan, Mandeep Dhillon, Pearce Quigley, James Buckley, Tom Allen - it's an embarrassment of riches.'

Furthermore, Danny Brocklehurst is adapting the book into an eight-part series for the streamer. 

The Woods is set to be Netflix's 14th Coben adaptation, with past projects including Missing You and Gone For Good. 

Earlier this year, Netflix launched fellow Coben series Run Away - with the show racking up an impressive Rotten Tomatoes score.

The murder mystery thriller - which stars Gavin And Stacey's Ruth Jones, as well as - launched on the streaming giant on New Year's day. 

After binge-watching, fans shared their riveting reviews online -

The series is based on Coben's 2019 book - which follows dad Simon and how his world is turned upside down when his daughter Paige goes missing. 

Over on Rotten Tomatoes, fans have shared their praise at the new series.

One wrote: 'I will admit that this is the first Harlan Coben adaptation that I actually liked watching.'

A second added: 'It's kind of bonkers and likely to engage viewers, but one can't help but be left wanting a little more.'

A third penned: 'If you’ve enjoyed previous Harlan Coben adaptations, you should love this one.'

Another commented: 'Expect a lot of climactic cliffhanger montages that continuously upend everything you thought you knew about… well, everything.'

A fifth quipped: 'Full of shocking twists and turns and gruesome violence, which are par for the course with all of Coben’s works, the show is an entertaining maze from its opening scene until the close.' 

Writing for the Daily Mail, TV critic Christopher Stevens said: 'This is soap packed full of steroids. It demands actors who are not afraid to go over the top, and viewers who are willing to suspend all disbelief.

'James Nesbitt is perfect for these rollercoaster roles. He starred in Missing You, the Coben drama that launched on New Year's Day last year, and he's even more feverish in Run Away – eyes blazing, teeth bared, nostrils flaring... and that's just when he's lost his car keys.

'Nesbitt plays Simon, the sort of snob who is constantly showing off his luxury watch. But he and wife Ingrid (Minnie Driver) are more tightly wound than any Swiss clockwork. Their daughter, Paige (Ellie de Lange), is a heroin addict, living in a squat.

'When Simon spots Paige busking in a park, he urges her to return home – and explodes into violence when her scuzzy boyfriend Aaron intervenes.

'Getting arrested and chucked into cells isn't the half of Simon's problems: a YouTuber films the fight and posts it on social media with the caption, 'Rich businessman beats up homeless guy'.

'All that happens within the first five minutes. Coben's thrillers don't hang around.'

He added: 'So much happens so quickly that it's a mistake to try and make sense of the plot as it unfolds, let alone to second–guess what might happen next.

'A pair of Bonnie–and–Clyde assassins sit in their car, exchanging offbeat, rambling dialogue that parodies Elmore Leonard at his most eccentric.

'Meanwhile, Ruth Jones turns up in the park and steals a dog before cadging a free lunch from its owner. Turns out she's a private detective called Elena, working on a case apparently unconnected to Simon's arrest.

'When her partner and computer hacker Lou (Annette Badland) announces she'd like the night off, Elena snaps, 'And I'd like to be in Bali with Idris Elba.' That's Sir Idris now, please.'