diff --git a/src/Common/QueryError.test.ts b/src/Common/QueryError.test.ts
index 2eea29a62..7924c398d 100644
--- a/src/Common/QueryError.test.ts
+++ b/src/Common/QueryError.test.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ describe("QueryError.tryParse", () => {
       code: "BadRequest",
       message: "Your query is bad, and you should feel bad",
     };
-    const message = JSON.stringify(innerError);
+    const message = `Message: ${JSON.stringify(innerError)}\r\nActivity ID: 42`;
     const outerError = {
       code: "BadRequest",
       message,
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ describe("QueryError.tryParse", () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  // Imitate the value coming from the backend, which has the syntax errors serialized as JSON in the message.
+  // Imitate the value coming from the backend, which has the syntax errors serialized as JSON in the message, along with a prefix and activity id.
   it("handles single-nested error", () => {
     const errors = [
       {
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ describe("QueryError.tryParse", () => {
       message: "Your query is bad, and you should feel bad",
       errors,
     };
-    const message = JSON.stringify(innerError);
+    const message = `Message: ${JSON.stringify(innerError)}\r\nActivity ID: 42`;
     const outerError = {
       code: "BadRequest",
       message,
@@ -91,4 +91,23 @@ describe("QueryError.tryParse", () => {
       ),
     ]);
   });
+
+  // Imitate another value we've gotten from the backend, which has a doubly-nested JSON payload.
+  it("handles double-nested error", () => {
+    const outerError = {
+      code: "BadRequest",
+      message:
+        '{"code":"BadRequest","message":"{\\"errors\\":[{\\"severity\\":\\"Error\\",\\"location\\":{\\"start\\":7,\\"end\\":18},\\"code\\":\\"SC2005\\",\\"message\\":\\"\'nonexistent\' is not a recognized built-in function name.\\"}]}\\r\\nActivityId: aaaaaaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaa, Windows/10.0.20348 cosmos-netstandard-sdk/3.18.0"}',
+    };
+
+    const result = QueryError.tryParse(outerError, testErrorLocationResolver);
+    expect(result).toEqual([
+      new QueryError(
+        "'nonexistent' is not a recognized built-in function name.",
+        QueryErrorSeverity.Error,
+        "SC2005",
+        new QueryErrorLocation({ offset: 7, lineNumber: 7, column: 7 }, { offset: 18, lineNumber: 18, column: 18 }),
+      ),
+    ]);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/Common/QueryError.ts b/src/Common/QueryError.ts
index 51748d1a8..c1bab1c02 100644
--- a/src/Common/QueryError.ts
+++ b/src/Common/QueryError.ts
@@ -214,16 +214,28 @@ export default class QueryError {
       return null;
     }
 
-    // Assign to a new variable because of a TypeScript flow typing quirk, see below.
-    if (message.startsWith("Message: ")) {
-      // Reassigning this to 'error' restores the original type of 'error', which is 'unknown'.
-      // So we use a separate variable to avoid this.
-      message = message.substring("Message: ".length);
+    // Some newer backends produce a message that contains a doubly-nested JSON payload.
+    // In this case, the message we get is a fully-complete JSON object we can parse.
+    // So let's try that first
+    if (message.startsWith("{") && message.endsWith("}")) {
+      let outer: unknown = undefined;
+      try {
+        outer = JSON.parse(message);
+        if (typeof outer === "object" && "message" in outer && typeof outer.message === "string") {
+          message = outer.message;
+        }
+      } catch (e) {
+        // Just continue if the parsing fails. We'll use the fallback logic below.
+      }
     }
 
     const lines = message.split("\n");
     message = lines[0].trim();
 
+    if (message.startsWith("Message: ")) {
+      message = message.substring("Message: ".length);
+    }
+
     let parsed: unknown;
     try {
       parsed = JSON.parse(message);