The number attached to the container

I manage logistics for a shipping company in Chennai and what I can tell you about the industry is that missing containers are investigated according to the value of their contents, not according to anything else. This is not a policy that has been written down anywhere. It is simply how it works. The thriller I'm writing is about a missing container that does not contain valuable cargo. It contains evidence of something. The investigation that follows is not the standard one. My protagonist is a logistics manager, not a detective, and her advantage is not investigative training but deep familiarity with the system, which means she knows exactly which levers to pull and which gaps to exploit. I live in Adyar and I write on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. I've been writing crime fiction since 2018, starting with short stories in Indian English publications and working toward the novel, which is my first. The Chennai setting is deliberate and I think it's where the book's specific texture comes from: the port, the heat, the particular bureaucratic culture of shipping, which operates according to its own logic regardless of what country the ship is leaving from.