Decker P.I.: A Cold and Lonely Death It started with a chance meeting on the beach and an offer to help. Two days later, the girl Sam Decker had met was dead, murdered and left on the beach. Decker wants to know why. As he begins to investigate the dead girl's past, it becomes apparent that her murder wasn't a chance thing, but that she was targeted. Anya Petroff had come to Scorpion Cay through a modern day 'Underground railroad' that is used to move battered women to a new location where they can make fresh starts without fear of discovery by their former abusers. Decker follows the trail to Washington, D.C. where he enlists the help of Homeland Security agent Jack Riley to help discover why Anya Petroff had to suffer a cold and lonely death.