The problem with being conned is that it feels reasonable while it’s happening.

Glenda Toews wanted more than an ordinary life. Stepping beyond the safety of her small world, the waitress walked through a door she believed was opening to possibility: a charismatic philanthropist, a dazzling world of generosity, a chance to make real change in her community.

Instead, she found herself holding a headline.

FINANCIAL PREDATOR.

Nothing about Daryl—his past, his promises, or his power—was what it seemed. What began as friendship and purpose became a story the justice system refused to take up, leaving Glenda with only one option: to tell it herself. A high-school dropout sets out to write a book—to protect others when no one else will.

Through fractured, haunting vignettes, SPUN traces the evolution of a con man—from boy to predator—as he shape-shifts, charms, deceives, and disappears, circling a chilling question:
What kind of person can deceive the people closest to him—and keep walking free?

As institutional silence presses against the cost of telling the truth, Corky’s Pub becomes Glenda’s unlikely chorus: truth-tellers, skeptics, and fiercely loyal witnesses who offer opinion, dark humour, and moral clarity.

This isn’t a book about healing.
It’s about living inside the dying.

A gripping, voice-driven memoir of psychological crime and moral courage, SPUN leaves readers with questions that linger long after the final page:

Where is he now?
And how do we protect ourselves from the ones who walk among us?