Ricardo Palacios succumbs to second heart attack
MCM Books author Ricardo D. Palacios, 75, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 15, at his home. On Sept. 5, he suffered an arrhythmia caused by plaque in an artery, but was making a remarkable recovery and had returned home to his ranch in Encinal. Unfortunately, he experienced a second heart attack from which he was unable to recover. “We will miss Ricardo greatly, MCM Books publisher Alfredo E. Cardenas said. “We are under contract to deliver his second novel with us and will work with his family to publish it posthumously.” Palacios was anxious to get back to work on final edits to the novel, tentatively entitled Judgement Reversed . The story is about a land dispute, a familiar subject to many in south Texas. “I’m home. Glad to be here for sure,” Palacios texted Cardenas in mid-November after moving back home from spending two months in a series of Austin medical and rehabilitation facilities. He assured the publisher he was ready to work on the final edits. A month later he succumbed to ...