2024 is off to a good start for Valérie Bénaïm. The journalist, columnist and host announced on Instagram that the month of February was going to be very busy for her; the historical chronicler of Do not touch My TV is preparing to release a new work, published by Fayard directed by her friend Isabelle Saporta, and in which she will give voice to the wives of criminals. A journalistic investigation called He’s not who you thinkand which will cause a lot of talk, as Valérie Bénaïm explained on Instagram to her subscribers: “Nearly two years of investigation. Exclusive testimonies from women in love with killers, who gave themselves up with an open heart and without taboos, psychologists, criminologists, lawyers, prison guards. My book is coming out as book 14 and it is already available for pre-order. I can’t wait for you to discover this investigation and these testimonies which question and move us. Far from preconceived ideas. I look forward to discussing it with you too.”
This theme, which will inevitably get people talking and dividing, is precisely at the heart of the news. This Friday, January 12, 2024, the press revealed that serial criminal Nordahl Lelandais had just become a fathereven though he has been in prison for several years already… One thing is certain, if some people risk being shocked by this theme which gives voice to the wives of serial killers, these colleagues of Do not touch My TV wanted to congratulate her, like her friend Géraldine Maillet : “Very very proud of you”. Hugo Manosthe companion of Laurent Ruquier, who occasionally intervenes in TPMP – basically on Friday – also congratulated her.
This is his fifth book
Valérie Bénaïm is not at her first attempt. Before He’s not who you think, the journalist and businesswoman has already published numerous other works, each time with different publishing houses. In 2005, Valérie Bénaïm published the novel The Rose of Stalingrad published by Flammarion, then wrote the biography of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in 2009, published by Archipoche editions. After ten years away from bookstores, Valérie Bénaïm reconnected with her passion for writing, by publishing Series kiffeuse published by First, a book in which she gives advice to her readers on how to live happily. More recently, in 2022, following the death of filmmaker Jean-Pierre BacriValérie Bénaïm dedicated a posthumous eulogy to him in the editions of L’Archipel.