Michael Theurillat (born 1961) is a Swiss writer of crime fiction.
Born in Basel, he studied business administration, art history and history. [1] In 2000, he quit his job as an executive with the Swiss bank UBS to be able to write full-time. [2]
Theurillat's novels follow the investigations of Kommissar Eschenbach, an investigator with the Zurich police. They have been commercially successful; his third novel, Sechseläuten, was at the head of Swiss bestseller lists following its publication. The Basler Zeitung called him one of Switzerland's most successful crime writers. [2]
In 2011, Der Bund reported that Theurillat had reused, without attribution, text from the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia in his novel Rütlischwur. [3]