Grif Stockley

Ruled by Race: Black White Relations in Arkansas From Slavery to the Present
From the Civil War to Reconstruction, the Redeemer period, Jim Crow, and the modern civil rights era to the present, Ruled by Race describes the ways that race has been at the center of much of the state's formation and image since its founding.

Race Relations in the Natural State
Using personal stories that give a deeper understanding of the high price of racism in Arkansas, Stockley presents for high school students a clear depiction of the decades-old struggle between white and black, rich and poor.

Daisy Bates: Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas
Stockley paints a vivid portrait of this courageous woman, revealing her to be a complex, dynamic leader of the civil rights movement.

Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919
This book, which won Stockley the American Association of State and Local History Award, uses novelistic prose to tell the full story of perhaps the worse race massacre in American history.

Expert Testimony
In this first of a series of five mystery novels, readers are introduced to Gideon Page: public defender, grieving widower, conflicted father and the unlikely hero at the heart of a loaded courtroom drama full of complex legal and ethical questions.

Probable Cause
Arkansas lawyer Gideon Page returns as defender of a likable and sophisticated black psychologist accused of murdering his white lover's mentally disabled child during electroshock therapy.

Religious Conviction
Gideon Page's third mystery finds the Arkansas lawyer representing a well-known fundamentalist preacher's daughter, accused of murdering her husband, in a case that leads Page into a hotbed of jealousy, lust and pornography.

Illegal Motion
When small-time lawyer Gideon Page agrees to defend a star football player against charges of rape, he doesn't realize what he's taken on. Suddenly, Page is at the center of a hotblooded case that's fated to earn him enemies, on campus and off.

Blind Judgment
Gideon Page returns to his hometown in the Arkansas Delta to try a murder case. In a world of old hatreds, lost loves and crumbling family myths, he's given the chance to finally get revenge on the man who years ago destroyed the Page family business and his mother's life.

Salted With Fire
When his best friend is accused of murder, Arkansas Delta lawyer Miller Holly agrees to represent him, and soon finds his hands full of a cantankerous client, a hostile judge, a national media circus and a set of ambiguous and conflicting facts.

Legal Briefs: Short Stories by Today's Best Thriller Writers
This collection of short stories by bestselling author-attorneys includes Stockley's "The Divorce," a tale of a divorce lawyer who learns the hard way that things are not always what they seem.

Truth! Reconciliation? and A Metaphysical Beast
In what Stockley calls "the painful conversation about race we have never had aloud in Little Rock," characters in Truth! Reconciliation? come together on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Central High Desegregation Crisis.

A Metaphysical Beast, which has its premiere at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1985, chronicles the agonizing decision of a man at the end of his life who asks his daughter to help him commit suicide.