Books like Maid for murder by Barbara Colley

After her mother’s death, Karen Whitlaw receives a mysterious notebook from her Vietnam‑war veteran father, only to discover he was murdered in New Orleans. With help from homicide detective Marc Chastain, she unravels a deadly plot tied to the notebook’s deadly contents.

In New Orleans, ex‑thief Jack Delaney is hired to collect a corpse that turns out alive, leading him into a plot involving a former nun, a Nicaraguan colonel, and a scheme to steal illicit money.

Eve Renner battles fragmented memories and a terrifying serial killer tied to a derelict New Orleans asylum, as past betrayals and ritual murders threaten to expose a hidden crime that could claim her life.

A stolen antique bust in New Orleans sparks a hunt through the French Quarter as a private investigator teams with an antiques dealer to destroy a demonic object before it claims another victim.

Maddie Chester leaves her memories of Gansett Island for a housekeeping job at McCarthy's Resort, only to be injured by the town’s charming heir, Mac McCarthy, who nurses her back to health and becomes unexpectedly involved in her life.

During a lively New Orleans soirée, float designer Archie Baudier is found dead on the balcony of Jekyl Hardie's French Quarter apartment—leaving scrapbook owner Carmela Bertrand, detective Edgar Babcock, and a swirl of Mardi Gras intrigue on a quest for the killer.

Set amid the Hundred Years' War, the novel follows Jehanne d'Arc—an orphaned peasant girl who rises from domestic hardship to lead France’s armies, exploring faith, fame, and the human cost of war.

When the celebrated Maid Mrs. Gillespie is struck down by a metal bucket, Inspector Hamish Macbeth faces a case that pulls him through a web of domestic secrets and local gossip, turning every home she once tended into a potential crime scene.

A spellbinding novel of contemporary romantic suspense--the unforgettable story of a woman caught between love and vengeance... Manhattan attorney Claire Green is haunted by the brutal murder of her twin sister Zoe in a dangerous revenge scheme that soon implicates Claire. Claire's only hope of clearing her name is to bring her sister's murderer to justice on her own...before a second killer strikes. But someone else is dogging Claire's trail: relentless F.B.I. agent Liam Jameson, who has tracked her to New Orleans. With her own life threatened, Claire reluctantly joins forces with the enigmatic Jameson. Distrust quickly flames into desire. As Mardi Gras builds to fever pitch, they are inexorably drawn into a shadowy world where impeccable tradition cloaks deadly secrets and where no one--not Claire nor even Jameson--is safe from the shocking truth...

After 23 years of trauma and a near‑fatal attack, writer Anna North feels safe until disturbing letters and a vanished friend link her past to three murders in New Orleans.

Scrapbooking enthusiast Carmela discovers a bloody body in an antiques shop and must use her sleuthing skills to solve a murder and a theft in the quirky streets of New Orleans.