Backstrom. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2005 book, Linda, as in the Linda Murder
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Linda, as in the Linda Murder
Leif G.W. Persson, 2005
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Hart Hanson, 2015

Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland’s newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city’s most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior.


Backstrom. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2008 book, He Who Kills the Dragon
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He Who Kills the Dragon
Leif G.W. Persson, 2008
TV series vs book
Hart Hanson, 2015

Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland’s newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city’s most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior.


Skinwalkers. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1986 book
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Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman, 1986
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Chris Eyre, 2002

Joe Leaphorn, a seasoned cop accustomed to the city ways of Phoenix, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, has returned to the Navajo reservation. His wife Emma is recovering from cancer and feels rejuvenated by the landscape and people of her homeland. Well schooled in urban policing, Leaphorn is soon confronted with a particular Navajo case: a mysterious killer who has a special antipathy for medicine men.


Coyote Waits. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the 1990 book
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Coyote Waits
Tony Hillerman, 1990
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Jan Egleson, 2003

A Navajo shaman is the prime suspect in a murder case in this drama from PBS. But as Officer Jim Chee investigates the case he discovers some unusual events that perplex the veteran lawman, leading to an intriguing climax.


Comanche Moon. Poster of the 2008 TV series and cover of the 1997 book
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Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry, 1997
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Simon Wincer, 2008

The exploits and romantic entanglements of youthful Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McRae unfold as they approach their eventual retirement in the city of Lonesome Dove.


A Thief of Time. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 1988 book
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A Thief of Time
Tony Hillerman, 1988
movie vs book
Chris Eyre, 2004

Navajo tribal policemen Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are back for a third thrilling mystery case. An archaeologist turned pottery poacher thinks she has cracked the secret of the vanished Anasazi culture, when she herself vanishes. As other poachers start dropping dead, Leaphorn and Chee must piece together a case as complicated as the mysteriously decorated pots that seem to motivate the killer.


Flags of Our Fathers. Poster of the 2006 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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Flags of Our Fathers
James D. Bradley, Ron Powers, 2000
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Clint Eastwood, 2006

As three US servicemen – Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Rene Gagnon, and Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 2nd Class John Doc Bradley – are feted as heroes in a war bond drive, they reflect on their experiences via flashback. The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.


The Power of the Dog. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1967 book
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The Power of the Dog
Thomas Savage, 1967
movie vs book
Jane Campion, 2021

The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil, one of the brothers, will end up launching a campaign against the young widow when she unexpectedly marries his brother and comes to live on the ranch.


Monkey Beach. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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Monkey Beach
Eden Robinson, 2000
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Loretta Todd, 2020

Striving to transform her life, a young indigenous woman decides to return to her hometown only to uncover the disarray and dysfunction that has taken hold of her family.


Windtalkers. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Windtalkers
Max Allan Collins, 2001
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John Woo, 2002

In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe Enders guards and ultimately befriends Ben Yahzee, a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee should fall into Japanese hands, how far will Enders go to save the military’s most powerful secret?


Juanita. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 2002 book, Dancing on the Edge of the Roof
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Dancing on the Edge of the Roof
Sheila Williams, 2002
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Clark Johnson, 2019

A Columbus, Ohio woman takes a Greyhound bus to Butte, Montana, where she reinvents herself and meets an interesting cast of characters at a French restaurant.


The New Mutants. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 1982 comic book
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The New Mutants
Chris Claremont, Bob McLeod, 1982
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Josh Boone, 2020

Danielle Dani Moonstar, a young Cheyenne Native American, escapes the destruction of her reservation during a tornado. Sam brought down a whole mine on his father and coworkers, Roberto burned his girlfriend to death, Rahne escaped her religiously strict village after being branded as a witch, and Illyana was haunted by her past of child slavery and abuse, which manifests itself as otherworldly beings called the Smiling Men.