The Stranger is an eight-part British mystery thriller miniseries written primarily by Danny Brocklehurst and based on the 2015 Harlan Coben novel of the same title.

A mysterious stranger, a woman in her 20s wearing a baseball cap, approaches Adam Price and tells him a secret.

It was announced in January 2019 that Netflix had begun development of a miniseries based on the 2015 Harlan Coben novel, with the adaptation being written by Danny Brocklehurst and with Richard Armitage set to star.

[2] By March, the cast was rounded out, with the additions including Siobhan Finneran, Hannah John-Kamen, Jennifer Saunders, Anthony Head and Stephen Rea.

The website's critical consensus states, "If not quite as addicting [sic] as its source material, The Stranger has a strong cast and enough tension to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.