An isolated and near empty hotel can be one of the loneliest places on the planet when you are being hunted by killers.
Giovanna Riccio was finding that out now as she stepped into the reception of the Hotel Villa Miracoli in the Gardone Riveria of northern Italy.
She had one small bag with her that contained her purse, some left-over change and a hair-brush – and that was it. She’d left everything from her ‘old life’ behind in the hotel room in Rimini. She was hunted and on the run and she knew that she could never go back; it was too much of a risk to both herself and her family back in Calabria. She had seen too much. Now she was solo, lost and without a clue about what to do or where to go. For her, the three-hour car journey from Rimini to Lake Garda was her shedding the skin of the
