Hexenjäger

What a convoluted story. Entertaining enough to keep going while on a longer car drive, but still not too complex too keep in mind while having breaks in between.
Now, we were listening to the German audiobook (and I don't know if it'd be different when reading or in a different language). There are time jumps between present time of Niemi as detective and previous time of Niemi as a late-teen on a quest to find herself in Italy; the jumps between these sections were stumbles really. In the beginning it seemed like the audiobook had skipped chapters or parts were missing as in a bridged version (all was in order) while there was no instrumental interlude between present and past; however there were interludes between immediately subsequent moments of the present. It was absolutely confusing and normally I don't shave problems with different POVs or times. To make this even worse, the story in Italy does not seem to have much to do with the present time plot line and at best gives some background info on relations but has no consequences for the case.
And the case... it wanted to be utterly “meta” as murders recreating fictional murders of a thriller - all within an actual thriller.