diff --git a/client/tailsql/client.go b/client/tailsql/client.go
index eb3af6e..8a34fc0 100644
--- a/client/tailsql/client.go
+++ b/client/tailsql/client.go
@@ -80,6 +80,22 @@ func QueryJSON[T any](ctx context.Context, c Client, dataSrc, sql string) ([]T,
 	}
 }
 
+// JSONString is a wrapper type that decodes JSON text encoded as a string
+// value to be decoded into plain JSON text.
+type JSONString []byte
+
+// UnmarshalText implements the encoding.TextUnmarshaler interface for JSON
+// text encoded inside a JSON string value.
+func (js *JSONString) UnmarshalText(data []byte) error {
+	return json.Unmarshal(data, (*json.RawMessage)(js))
+}
+
+// MarshalText encodes a JSON text into a JSON string value.
+func (js JSONString) MarshalText() ([]byte, error) { return []byte(js), nil }
+
+// Unmarshal unmarshals the JSON encoded in js into v.
+func (js JSONString) Unmarshal(v any) error { return json.Unmarshal([]byte(js), v) }
+
 // Rows is the result of a successful Query call.
 type Rows struct {
 	Columns []string   // column names
diff --git a/client/tailsql/client_test.go b/client/tailsql/client_test.go
index 277df0f..ed89ed7 100644
--- a/client/tailsql/client_test.go
+++ b/client/tailsql/client_test.go
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 package tailsql_test
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"testing"
@@ -143,3 +145,66 @@ func TestClient(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	})
 }
+
+func TestJSONString(t *testing.T) {
+	var tdata = struct {
+		S string `json:"foo"`
+		Z int    `json:"bar"`
+		B bool   `json:"baz"`
+	}{S: "hello", Z: 1337, B: true}
+
+	tjson, err := json.Marshal(tdata)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Encode test data: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	t.Run("Encode", func(t *testing.T) {
+		const want = `"{\"foo\":\"hello\",\"bar\":1337,\"baz\":true}"`
+		enc, err := json.Marshal(tailsql.JSONString(tjson))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Encode failed: %v", err)
+		}
+		if got := string(enc); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("Encode: got %#q, want %#q", got, want)
+		}
+	})
+
+	// Verify that we can round-trip through a string.
+	t.Run("RoundTrip", func(t *testing.T) {
+		enc, err := json.Marshal(struct {
+			V tailsql.JSONString
+		}{V: tjson})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Encode wrapper: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		var dec struct {
+			V tailsql.JSONString
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(enc, &dec); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Decode wrapper: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		if !bytes.Equal(dec.V, tjson) {
+			t.Fatalf("Decoded string: got %#q, want %#q", dec.V, tjson)
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("Unmarshal", func(t *testing.T) {
+		const input = `" [2 , 3 , 5] "`
+
+		var js tailsql.JSONString
+		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(input), &js); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Unmarshal failed: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		var zs []int
+		if err := js.Unmarshal(&zs); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("Unmarshal message: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		if diff := cmp.Diff(zs, []int{2, 3, 5}); diff != "" {
+			t.Fatalf("Result (-got, +want):\n%s", diff)
+		}
+	})
+}